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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 […]
MuseLetter #184 / August 2007 by Richard Heinberg [This issue is a joint publication with the journal Public Policy Research] During the past decade a growing chorus of energy analysts has warned of the approach of “Peak Oil,” the time when the global rate of extraction of petroleum will reach a maximum and begin its […]
MuseLetter #182 / June 2007 by Richard Heinberg My book The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse was released eight months ago; given the importance of its subject, I thought an update might be useful. Relevant developments during these few months have been both encouraging and discouraging. First […]
MuseLetter #178 / Feburary 2007 by Richard Heinberg My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society. The […]
MuseLetter #177 / January 2007 by Richard Heinberg The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. But just how the impacts of these two problems relate to one another, and how policies to address them should differ or overlap, are questions that have so far not been […]
MuseLetter #173 / September 2006 by Richard Heinberg Note to subscribers: The new book is out! I have a couple of cases of The Oil Depletion Protocol, so pre-publication orders are now being fulfilled; also it will soon be in bookstores. This month’s MuseLetter is one of those occasional issues that must serve stacking functions. […]
MuseLetter #171 / July 2006 by Richard Heinberg Dear Greg, Congratulations on your new book, Armed Madhouse. As with your previous work, I admire your dedication in exposing the machinations of government and corporate miscreants. However, this time around you’ve also taken a potshot at a target that I happen to know a good deal […]
