This essay is based on, and partly extracted from, the book POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL. During the last century, evolutionary biologists developed the idea that power (defined as the rate of energy transfer) is key to...
Richard Heinberg—PCI Senior Fellow and author of the new book, POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival—was recently interviewed by Douglas Rushkoff for an episode of his Team Human podcast. Richard Heinberg shares the simple truth that power has...
Power, Richard Heinberg's most ambitious book to date, explores how Homo sapiens—one species among millions—became powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth’s climate.
This article is adapted from POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival (New Society Publishers) by Richard Heinberg Climate change is often incorrectly described as an isolated pollution issue. In this flawed framing, humanity has simply made a mistake...
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PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was recently interviewed by Stuart Scott and Dale Walkonen of FacingFuture about his newest book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL.
Callum Alexander from Scotland recently contacted me with a few queries about renewable energy. I thought they were interesting questions that might occur to others, so I asked his permission to publish our dialog. Callum: If you replace a...
A little over a year ago I wrote an essay titled The United States: An Obituary. It was the tail end of the Trump regime and the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic; dread was in the air, and I...
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The “maximum power principle” may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states that biological systems organize to increase power whenever constraints allow. Given the way humans adhere...
This article, the third in a series, is based on the author’s forthcoming book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL. You can read the first article in the series here, and the second here. For information about the book and...