Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s book Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels was reviewed at Street Roots News.

From the review:

Richard Heinberg’s “Afterburn” — despite being a collection of talks and essays — lays out in lucid, reasonable and understandable detail the consequences of the convergence of two coming crises: the environmental disaster of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the less-acknowledged fact that we’re on the verge of running out of cheap, easy sources of fossil fuel energy.

Note that Heinberg doesn’t say we’re running out of fossil fuel. The media has recently been full of the assertion that we’re not running out of oil because we’ve found new sources and new fields. All that will happen, they say, is that the price may go up. But, as Heinberg points out, what we’re approaching is the point where the energy invested in extracting fossil fuel is so high that it approximates the energy gained from that fuel. When that happens, it won’t matter how high the price goes up.