In the 1970s, global political and corporate elites had all the information they needed to put the world on a path toward long-term stability. Systems science was sufficiently advanced that a team of its practitioners organized a scenario study...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the West’s response, are ushering the world into a new energy, economic, and political era. In broad outline, this new era will have less-globally-integrated energy markets, and less-secure supplies of fossil fuels. Since energy...
Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth. Not only did this best-selling...
Richard Heinberg—PCI Senior Fellow and author of POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival—was interviewed for an article in Fortune Magazine’s The Path to Zero series.
On December 8, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to spearhead his administration’s efforts to combat climate change. What does this order actually promise to accomplish? How does that compare with what other nations are doing? Is any...
Richard Heinberg—PCI Senior Fellow and author of the new book, POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival—was interviewed by Alex Smith for Radio Ecoshock about his new book, high prices, and the fragile energy market.
A note from Richard Heinberg to our Post Carbon Institute readers: Thanks to a generous grant from Mobius Foundation, all donations made through the end of the year will be matched! Every donor will also get an exclusive link...
Richard Heinberg’s newest book, POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, was reviewed by columnist John Bos of Greenfield Recorder. My dismal belief is confirmed by Richard Heinberg in his new book “Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival.”...
Coal and natural gas spot prices have recently soared to record levels internationally, while oil is trading at over $80 a barrel—the highest price in seven years. Newspaper columnists are asking whether people in Europe and Asia who can’t...
Richard Heinberg—PCI Senior Fellow and author of the new book, POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival—was interviewed by Michael Welch for the Global Research News Hour podcast. Our species is Homo Sapiens, latin for the ‘wise ape.’ (We,...