The Big Picture
It is only by pulling together that we can hope to salvage and protect what is most intrinsically valuable about our world, and perhaps even improve lives over the long term.
Oil, Power and War – Foreword
The post below is the Foreword, written by Richard Heinberg, to Matthieu Auzanneau’s new book Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History published by Chelsea Green Publishing. For information on where to get hold of a copy see the...
Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History
Award-winning journalist Matthieu Auzanneau deftly traces how oil became a national and then global addiction, outlines the enormous consequences of that addiction, sheds new light on major historical and contemporary figures, and raises new questions about the conventional history of...
Our Bonus Decade
“The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during...
When it comes to sustainability, we’re a society of distracted drivers
Rather than sharing the distractions now capturing the attention of other drivers, we must each retrain ourselves to pay attention to the instrument panel and the road ahead of us.
Heinberg quoted in Macleans magazine article on synthetic fuels
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was quoted in this article on the potential for ‘carbon neutral’ synthetic fuels. From the article: Not everyone is giddy about Carbon Engineering’s plans. Carbon-reduction purists, who for years have tried to use...
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
A lot of people are asking the question these days—including serious folks who work full-time on climate and energy policy.
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 3
Crime is always present in complex societies, just as all higher-order organisms are subject to parasites.
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 2
To the extent that we are today eroding the carrying capacity on which future generations would otherwise depend, our way of life could be characterized as intergenerational “predation”; to put it crudely, the old are “eating” the young.
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 1
Human Predators, Human Prey: Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part 1 This is Part 1 of a three-part essay that uses predation as a metaphor to unpack power relations in human societies. (Read part 2 and...