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MuseLetter #338 / April 2021 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The Evolution of Social Power This article is the second in a series based on Richard's forthcoming book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL. For information about the book and how to join a pre-release reading and discussion group please see postcarbon.org/power. […]
MuseLetter #337 / March 2021 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear readers, This Month's MuseLetter includes two essays. The first is a glimpse at my new book, POWER, which will be out in September (and will be available soon for a pre-release sign-up guided reading group). The second asks what fountain pens (of all things!) […]
MuseLetter #336 / February 2021 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital) David Fleming, the late British economist, contributed many blazing insights; one that’s captivated my attention recently has to do with capital. Fleming counted six kinds of capital (natural, human, social, scientific/cultural, material, and […]
MuseLetter #335 / January 2021 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Insurrection, pandemic, and censorship On January 6, thousands gathered in Washington, DC to hear an inciteful speech from President Trump, then forcefully breached the US Capitol Building in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transition of presidential power—an institutional foundation of democracy. Some […]
MuseLetter #334 / December 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version 2020: The Year Consensus Reality Fractured Virtually everyone agrees that 2020 was an abomination. An entire industry of opinion writers is busying itself with end-of-year handwringing, scouring every online thesaurus for adjectives to express just how horrible the last twelve months have been. […]
MuseLetter #333 / November 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Making America ungovernable The US presidential election of 2020 is now behind us—or is it? President Trump has yet to concede his defeat, and many Republican lawmakers have demanded recounts and backed lawsuits. Some commentators fear that the current administration is laying the […]
MuseLetter #332 / October 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version The thread running through this month’s Museletter is energy. The first essay, “A Simple Way to Understand What’s Happening and What to Do,” explains the systemic consequences of fossil fuel depletion and the policy options that make sense in response to it; the […]
MuseLetter #331 / September 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable? The notion that modern industrial civilization is fundamentally unsustainable and is therefore likely to collapse at some point is not a new one. Even before the Limits to Growth report of 1972, many ecologists were concerned that our continual […]
MuseLetter #330 / August 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version This month’s Museletter is my response to Bob Labaree’s essay “Darwin’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful: What’s Musical About Biology and Why Does That Matter?”, which was itself based on previous conversations he and I had about the relationship between music, creativity, and nature. […]
MuseLetter #329 / July 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear MuseLetter subscriber, This month’s issue consists of two essays. The first, “Avalanche,” is an update on the US response to the coronavirus pandemic; the second, “Doom or Denial: Is There Another Path?” is a comment on a dispute that has broken out […]
MuseLetter #328 / June 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Greetings readers, It seems that we're all in it for the long haul! Though the last three or four months of lockdown have been trying and nearly everyone longs for a return to "normal," in reality the global pandemic is still in its […]
MuseLetter #327 / May 2020 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Dear Readers, This month I offer two short pieces: my review of Planet of the Humans, a new film produced by Michael Moore; and "Nobody Takes Renewable Energy Transition Seriously," in which I offer suggestions for what we should do if we really […]
