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MuseLetter #204 / April 2009 by Richard Heinberg This month’s issue is a compilation of two pieces. The piece “Timing” 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 […]
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 […]
MuseLetter 198 / October 2008 by Richard Heinberg This month’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’s hard to learn much or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
MuseLetter #193 / May 2008 by Richard Heinberg It’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
