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		<title>Museletter 251: There&#8217;s Only One Real Option for Averting Economic and Ecological Ruin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #251 / April 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 102 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter is made up of a an essay I wrote for the book &#8216;Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth&#8217;. In addition I&#8217;ve included a link to a short video update about my forthcoming &#8216;Snake oil&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help me write my next book</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #250 / March 2013 by Richard Heinberg Hi, I&#8217;m busy working on my next book titled SNAKE OIL! How Big Energy&#8217;s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, and would really appreciate your participation. The book is going to debunk big energy&#8217;s misleading promise of plenty, by presenting the facts of our energy predicament. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 249: Deficit Reduction = Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #249 / February 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 87 KB) Dear Readers, MuseLetter for February offers pretty slim pickings (see below). Why so little, so late? Well, I’m working on a new book. I’ll have more to tell you about that next month! Best wishes, Richard   Deficit Reduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 248: A Theory of Change for a Century of Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #248 / January 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 101 KB) This first Museletter of 2013 is in two parts. First up is the conclusion of the address which I gave to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change in November. Second are musings on the very topical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter 247: Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #247 / December 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 119 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comes from an address which I gave to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change in November. Part two &#8216;A theory of change for a century of crisis&#8217; will appear in January&#8217;s Museletter. Conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #246: Gas Bubble Leaking, About to Burst</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #246 / November 2012 by Richard Heinberg The US Presidential election campaign served up much in the way of promises but worryingly little in the way of energy and climate reality. For this month&#39;s Museletter I&#39;ve included three pieces I wrote as the campaign wrapped up &#8212; the last of the three is intended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #245: Australia, Meet the Post-Growth Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #245 / October 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 94KB) I&#8217;ve spent most of the past month touring Australia and New Zealand, giving over a dozen lectures in about as many cities. This month&#8217;s MuseLetter includes two op-eds from that tour. First is a submission to the Sydney Morning Herald, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #244: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #244 / September 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) With Arctic ice at record lows the impact of climate change is becoming increasingly clear. This month&#8217;s lead article looks at the case for building resilience in the face of the coming changes. Part 2 brings you the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #243: Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #243 / August 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 116 KB) August&#8217;s newsletter brings together a new essay on facing the challenges of evolutionary success, and a preview of the script of a forthcoming short animation &#8211; to be released in the fall. Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment Evolution can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #242: The End of Growth Update Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #242 / July 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 111 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter is part 2 of the eBook update to my book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. Economic contraction and social claustrophobia The social dimensions of the end of growth are coming into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #241: End of Growth Update Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #241 / June 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 123 KB) This month&#8217;s newsletter is part 1 of an update to my book The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality. In The End of Growth, published in September 2011, I made the observation that world economic expansion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #240: Top 11 FAQs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #240 / May 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 119 KB) This month&#8217;s newsletter comes in 2 parts. The first part is what I hope you will find a useful and timely FAQ on current issues. It is the culmination of my experience from Q&#38;A sessions during recent lecture tours. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museletter #239: Talking Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #239 / April 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 112 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises 3 short essays. The first is my impressions from the recent UN &#8220;High Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness; in the second I respond to an essay on the fracking industry by Randy Udall; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#238: Coal, Pipeline Politics, and $5 Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #238 / March 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 123 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises three short pieces on the topic of energy. First is an update on China&#8217;s devastating coal consumption; the following two concentrate on the current headline energy issues in the US &#8211; Keystone XL, and gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#237: The Fight of the Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #237 / February 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 143 KB) The Fight of the Century As economies contract, a global popular uprising confronts power elites over access to the essentials of human existence. What are the underlying dynamics of the conflict, and how is it likely to play out? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#236: MuseLetter: The 20th Anniversary Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #236 / January 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 161 KB) Welcome to the 20th anniversary edition of the Museletter. This month&#8217;s edition includes a short Muse memoir, two new pieces, and two reprints of favorites from the past. Thanks for your continued support. MuseLetter: The 20th Anniversary Issue The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#235: Soaring oil and food prices threaten affordable food supply</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #235 / December 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 160 KB) December&#8217;s Museletter is a compilation of three recent pieces. All three are in essence about the political failure to recognize that we are reaching real limits to growth. The first concentrates on the effect of high oil prices on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#234: What We&#8217;re For</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #234 / November 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 149 KB) What We Are For &#160; Every activist engaged in combating human-caused climate change or specific elements of the current energy economy knows that the work is primarily oppositional. It could hardly be otherwise; for citizens who care about ecological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#233: Our Problems are Resolvable In Principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #233 / October 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 80 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter begins with a message to all those around the country taking part in the #Occupy movement. You may be interested to know that PCI sent a contact of ours, activist/videographer Ben Zolno, to meet with demonstators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#232: Welcome to the Post-Growth Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #232 / September 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 105 KB) The September Museletter is comprised of two pieces related to my book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8216;. The first is the op-ed which the mainstream press seems reluctant to publish as they hang desperately on to idea that economic growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>231: Who Killed Economic Growth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #231 / August 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 179 KB) The End of Growth was officially released this week! To celebrate, this month&#8217;s Museletter includes a new extract from the book, along with our accompanying animation Who Killed Economic Growth. Finally I have included a new piece encouraging a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#230: Petroleum Propaganda 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #230 / July 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 106 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises 3 short articles. The most recent concerns the oblique language of government which continues to stifle honest debate on the urgent issues we face; the second is a concise summary of those issues for policymakers; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#229: Currency Wars/Post-Growth Geopolitics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #229 / June 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 115 KB) This month&#8217;s article comes again from from Chapter 5 my new book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8216;, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in August 2011. This chapter &#8216;Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#228 &#8211; Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 12:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #228 / May 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 146 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter comprises two pieces. The lead article is the first release of a new section from Chapter 5 of my upcoming book The End of Growth which will be published in September 2011 by New Society Publishers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#227: Our Economic Black Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #227 / April 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 98 KB) This month&#8217;s Museletter is made up of two short essays. The first is about the perilous state of the U.S. economy; the second makes the case for urgent energy conservation. &#160; Our Economic Black Hole In recent months economist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#226: Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #226 / March 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) This article is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Richard&#8217;s new book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in September 2011. Access previous chapters here. Won&#8217;t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#225: Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #225 / February 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) This article is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Richard&#8217;s new book &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#224: The Sound of Air Escaping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #224 / January 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 214 KB) This article is an excerpt from Richard&#8217;s new book (working title &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;), which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#223: Video museletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #223 / December 2010 by Richard Heinberg In this month&#8217;s newsletter I am talking to you by video. I am currently very hard at work on my new book (working title &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;. In the video I share with you more about progress on the book and the thinking behind it. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#222: The End of Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #222 / November 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) This is the second Museletter containing an excerpt from my upcoming book which has the working title &#39;The End of Growth&#39;. The book is set for publication by New Society Publishers in July 2011. Additionally, Richard will be offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#221: Economics for the Hurried</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #221 / October 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 132 KB) Over the next few months, most of my MuseLetters and blog posts will be excerpts from a new book-in-progress with the working title &#8216;The End of Growth&#8217;. Only some of the book&#8217;s contents will be serialized this way. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#220: Peak Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #220 / September 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 120 KB) This month’s Museletter is made up of two pieces and includes the preface to the new paperback edition of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines which will be released in paperback this month (September) by New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#219: YOU Can Be a BILLIONAIRE Without Doing Anything!!! Five Ways to Profit BIG from Global Collapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #219 / August 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 108 KB) (Author&#8217;s note: This is the Introduction to an inspirational / financial-advice / environmental / diet / dating / self-help / survivalist / humor book that I started to write&#8212;and quickly decided should never be finished. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#218: Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case, Best-case, and Most-Likely Scenarios</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #218 / July 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 125 KB) This month’s Museletter is a collection of three pieces. The first two examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The third is a tongue in cheek look at industry responses to peak oil. Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#217: The End Is Nigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #217 / June 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 117 KB) Following the failure of the latest efforts to plug the gushing leak from BP&#8217;s Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and amid warnings that oil could continue to flow for another two months or more, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#216: China&#8217;s Coal Bubble&#8230;and how it will deflate U.S. efforts to develop &#8220;clean coal&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #216 / May 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 107 KB) The conventional wisdom in energy-and-environment circles is that China&#8217;s economy, which is growing at a rate of eight percent or more per year, is mostly coal powered today and will continue to be so for decades to come. Coal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#215: Economic History in 10 Minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #215 / April 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) Economic History in 10 Minutes Throughout over 90 percent of our species&#8217; history, we humans lived by hunting and gathering in what anthropologists call gift economies. People had no money, and there was neither barter nor trade among members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#214: Life After Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #214 / March 2010 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 139 KB) &#160; This month&#8217;s Museletter contains two pieces. The first is a rather long essay containing an autobiographical sketch of the path that led me to write full-time about the transition to a post-carbon world, titled &#8220;Life After Growth.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#213: China or the U.S.: Which Will Be the Last Nation Standing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silly me. Here I had thought that world leaders would want to keep their nations from collapsing. They must be working hard to prevent currency collapse, financial system collapse, food system collapse, social collapse, environmental collapse, and the onset of general, overwhelming misery—right? But no, that’s not what the evidence suggests. Increasingly I am forced to conclude that the object of the game that world leaders are actually playing is <i>not</i> to avoid collapse; it’s simply to postpone it a while so as to be the last nation to go down, so yours can have the chance to pick the others’ carcasses before it meets the same fate.]]></description>
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		<title>#212: The Meaning of Copenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the pivotal international conference of the new century. Tens of thousands showed up, including heads of state, officials at all levels of government, representatives of environmental organizations, and ordinary citizens from nearly 200 countries. Scientists had warned that, without a strong agreement to reduce carbon emissions, the consequences for civilization and the world's ecosystems would be cataclysmic.]]></description>
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		<title>#211: Is &#8220;Clean Coal&#8221; a Dead End?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #211 / December 2009 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 109 KB) richardheinberg.com 1. Is &#34;Clean Coal&#34; a Dead End? Note: this article is being featured in the first issue of the new magazine Solutions. Many energy experts, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and representatives of the coal industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#210: Dilemma &amp; Denial; ASPO 2009 Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter # 210 / November 2009 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 122 KB) richardheinberg.com 1. Dilemma &#38; Denial A couple of weeks ago Jerry Mander and I were discussing the best word to use in the heading for the back cover copy of a new short book being co-published by International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#209: Our Evanescent Culture And the Awesome Duty of Librarians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter 209 / October 2009 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 123 KB) richardheinberg.com 1. Our Evanescent Culture And the Awesome Duty of Librarians How secure is our civilization&#8217;s accumulated knowledge? It is a question that, in a fundamental sense, transcends many life-and-death concerns (threats of sickness, natural disaster, or military invasion) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September MuseLetter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to unforeseen licensing issues I am not able to publish the Museletter which I had ready for September. I hope to be able to return to normal service in October. In the meantime my latest commentary has been published here on postcarbon.org. -Richard]]></description>
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		<title>#208: Temporary Recession or the End of Growth?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter 208 / August 2009 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 127 KB) richardheinberg.com Everyone agrees: our economy is sick. The inescapable symptoms include declines in consumer spending and consumer confidence, together with a contraction of international trade and available credit. Add a collapse in real estate values and carnage in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#207: Peak Oil Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter 207 / July 2009 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 91 KB) On July 11, 2008, the price of a barrel of oil hit a record $147.27 in daily trading. That same month, world crude oil production achieved a record 74.8 million barrels per day. For years prior to this, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#206: Look on the Bright Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month's MuseLetter brings together two pieces that share a connecting theme &#8212; is humanity capable of making the necessary changes to save the planet and so itself? The first article <i>Look on the Bright Side</i> discusses this from the viewpoint of the huge shifts that are already occuring as a result of economic decline. <i>Somebody's Gotta Do It</i> explores the job of trying to lead change and the challenges faced by all who attempt so to do.]]></description>
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		<title>#205: Spring Cleaning</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter 205 / May 2009 by Richard Heinberg This month I have been putting the finishing touches on Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis, which will be published in June by New Society Publishers; and Energy Limits to Growth, which will be released at about the same time by International Forum on Globalization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#204: Timing and the Post Carbon Manifesto</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #204 / April 2009 by Richard Heinberg This month&#8217;s issue is a compilation of two pieces. The piece &#8220;Timing&#8221; is a commentary on the timing of global economic collapse and the fraught nature of accurately predicting when this will occur. This is followed by the new Post Carbon Manifesto which is being released this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial vs. Ecological Crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Heinberg This article originally appeared in the Ecologist November 2008 During the past weeks the world media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global financial system. At stake are billions in bailouts and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#198: Various Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter 198 / October 2008 by Richard Heinberg This month&#8217;s issue is a compilation of several recent short writings. The last of these, a set of frequently asked questions about Peak Oil, is a work in progress that will appear in expanded form at www.postcarbon.org. Lessons from the Soil It&#8217;s hard to learn much or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Cheap Oil? Reduce Demand!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Heinberg [This article originally appeared in The Ecologist, September 2008.] Ask the major oil companies why oil prices are beyond ludicrous and they’ll tell you there’s plenty of oil out there, there’s just a lack of investment in exploration and production. Funny, the level of investment in the global oil industry hasn’t dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Climate Activists Welcome Peak Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Heinberg [Originally written for The Ecologist] Climate Change is the worst environmental crisis ever. It is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically. But from a policy standpoint, Climate Change is hard to address. Because the worst of its impacts may come decades from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#196: Coal and Climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #196 / August 2008 by Richard Heinberg [This month's essay is another chapter from the retitled book-in-progress, BLACKOUT: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis.] Recent reports on global coal reserves, surveyed in previous chapters, generally point to the likelihood of supply limits appearing relatively soon—within the next two decades (a contrary view is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Extremes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Heinberg [Originally written for The Ecologist] As the urgent necessity of our transition away from fossil fuels becomes plain, it’s inevitable that some of us will take that necessity seriously enough to explore the edges of “normal” behavior. On the post-carbon frontier, the hardiest pioneers are those willing not only to apply ingenuity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Like the Collapse So Far?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Richard Heinberg [Originally written for The Ecologist] Take relentless population growth. Add decades of expanding per-capita resource consumption. Simmer slowly over rising global temperatures. What do you get? Traumatic information: that is, information that wounds us through the very act of obtaining it. Everyone knows things are going wrong. But if you understand ecology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#193: It&#039;s Happening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 01:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #193 / May 2008 by Richard Heinberg It&#8217;s Happening This month I’ve done an unusual amount of travel. The early days of the month I was on the tail-end of a trip to the UK and Canada, which included a conference at Findhorn, Scotland, appearances in Lewes, Leicester, and Forest of Dean, and two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#192: Resilient Communities: A Guide to Disaster Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #192 / April 2008 by Richard Heinberg Resilient Communities: A Guide to Disaster Management Resilience: The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy; the ability to absorb shocks. The following is a proposal to help make communities better able to respond to the coming economic shocks from resource depletion, beginning with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#188: What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #188 / December 2007 by Richard Heinberg The Lady Eve Balfour Lecture, November 22, 2007 Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#187: Big Melt Meets Big Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MuseLetter #187 / November 2007 by Richard Heinberg Rethinking the Implications of Climate Change and Peak Oil Environmental and development NGOs are now fixated on climate change to the exclusion of nearly every other topic. Discussions in and among these organizations center on capping carbon emissions and trading emissions rights, and doing this internationally in [...]]]></description>
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