Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s The Party’s Over was quoted in this article on the Paris terror attacks.

From the article:

Yesterday I wrote an article, “The Hidden Causes of the Paris Killings And What We Can Do to Prevent Future Violence.” I said that in order to understand the killings we have to understand why young men have become so disconnected from life, they want to kill and to die.

I’d like to take the discussion deeper. We can’t understand groups like ISIS or the young men who join them unless we confront the realities of the world we live in. In his prescient book, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, published in 2003, Richard Heinberg said, “The world is changing before our eyes—dramatically, inevitably, and irreversibly. The change we are seeing is affecting more people, and more profoundly, than any that human beings have ever witnessed. I am not referring to a war or terrorist incident, a stock market crash, or global warming, but to a more fundamental reality that is driving terrorism, war, economic swings, climate change and more: the discovery and exhaustion of fossil energy resources.”