Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg will be featured prominently in Once You Know, an upcoming film about how to convert “toxic knowledge” about climate change and societal collapse into the will to take action. Both Heinberg and the film’s creator, Emmanual Cappellin (along with other experts), provide words of wisdom  in this article from The Resilience Journal, and in an hour-long interview published with the article. Heinberg says, “we’re in history’s biggest bubble, and it’s not a stock market bubble. It’s an everything bubble, because everything is part of it.”

From the article:

The train scene in Children of Men, the idea of total global meltdown when the masses realize it’s all over for the world, is hard to shake, isn’t it. I must admit to being guilty at times, in the constant inner struggle with climate anguish, of also assuming this to be the default mode of human nature.

Filmmaker Emmanual Cappellin, though, is having none of it. No, sir. Instead, he has made a bet, that as it dawns on people everywhere that climate change will, indeed, crumble the hopes and dreams on which we have pegged our identities and sense of future, plus the resources that sustain so much of life, the reaction will be quite another.

“I’m betting that when recognizing our shared and sometimes not so shared vulnerability, people will actually come alive, come together, and will be courageous, not just at the family or community level, but beyond.”

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