Richard Heinberg

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’s lead article looks at the case for building resilience in the face of the coming changes. Part 2 brings you the latest [...]

In recent months we’ve seen a spate of assertions that peak oil is a worry of the past thanks to so-called “new technologies” that can tap massive amounts of previously inaccessible stores of “unconventional” oil. “Don’t worry, drive on,” we’re told. We can fall for the oil industry hype and keep ourselves chained to a [...]

MuseLetter #243 / August 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 116 KB) August’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 – to be released in the fall. Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment Evolution can be [...]

MuseLetter #242 / July 2012 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 111 KB) This month’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 [...]