Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg sat down to deliver a 22-chapter lecture series entitled “Think Resilience: Preparing Communities for the Rest of the 21st Century,” which explores how communities can build resilience in the face of our intertwined sustainability crises. The series is intended for students and concerned individuals of all ages.

Chapter 2: Energy

Energy is key to everything—it’s an essential driver of the natural world and of the human world, and it will also be pivotal to the societal transformations we’ll be experiencing in the 21st century and beyond.

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View Chapter 1: Introduction

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• Budding plant in sunlight: Greg Brave/Shutterstock.com
• Zebras grazing: jo Crebbin/Shutterstock.com
• Lion chasing zebra: Graham Needham/Shutterstock.com
• Coal in hand: Siberia Video and Photo/Shtterstock.com
• Steam thermal power plant: nayneung1/Shutterstock.com
• Power plant turbine: Kmannn/Shutterstock.com
• Electricity transformers: Martin Capek/Shutterstock.com
• Transmission lines: hramovnick/Shutterstock.com
• Electricity meters: flairgun/Shutterstock.com
• Man using devices: GaudiLab/Shutterstock.com
• Oil barrel close up: Peter Gudella/Shutterstock.com
• Hired farm hands, PA in 1880s: Old Economy Village/Explorepahistory.com
• Hand harvesting in Australia: Public Domain
• Combine harvester: Stockr/Shutterstock.com
• Solar farm: Praethip Docekalova/Shutterstock.com
• Wind turbines in United Kingdom: eelnosiva/Shutterstock.com
• Attic insulation being laid: irin-k/Shutterstock.com
• Heat pump outside home: Public Domain
• Video of cauldron in steel factory: Fisherss/Videoblocks.com
• Large red excavator: kaband/Shutterstock.com
• Large trucks at mine: Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock.com
• Asphalt being flattened: Stockr/Shutterstock.com
• Parking structure: buchan/Shutterstock.com