Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg is featured in the upcoming Link TV Special:America - Running on Empty

With this year’s sharp increase in oil prices, the suburbanite love affair with sprawl and SUVs is on the rocks. From sticker shock at the gas pump to policy debates over ethanol and carbon emissions, America is just beginning to face up to its addiction to oil. Will peak oil signal the end of the comfortable way of life carefully crafted in post-WWII America? And how can we be ready for the inevitable depletion of fossil fuels that have powered global society for more than a century?

Hosted by Aimee Allison, host and producer of KPFA Radio’s Morning Show in Oakland, California, this Link TV special explores America’s future as our oil supply dwindles. Joining Ms. Allison for discussion are guests Richard Heinberg, educator and author of Peak Everything, and Greg Greene, director and writer of the film The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. As part of the special, Link is airing Greene’s film.

The special will air several times in October, visit Link TV for more details.

http://www.linktv.org/programs/special_running

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