Richard Heinberg

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The Future of Power

Learning to Live Happily Within Limits

From: Power

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In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. 63 $6.30 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Population, Resources, and Human Idealism

From: Peak Everything

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No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … 12 $1.20 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change

From: Peak Everything

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The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every … 15 $1.50 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism

From: Peak Everything

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The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on … 19 $1.90 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Boomers' Last Chance?

From: Peak Everything

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In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now … 14 $1.40 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

A Letter From the Future

From: Peak Everything

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Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced … 12 $1.20 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Talking Ourselves to Extinction

From: Peak Everything

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Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … 14 $1.40 Add