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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’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) […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
This month’s MuseLetter brings together two pieces that share a connecting theme — is humanity capable of making the necessary changes to save the planet and so itself? The first article Look on the Bright Side discusses this from the viewpoint of the huge shifts that are already occuring as a result of economic decline. Somebody’s Gotta Do It explores the job of trying to lead change and the challenges faced by all who attempt so to do.
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 […]
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 […]
