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Geopolitical Implications of “Peak Everything”

From Solutions Journal, January 2012. Also published in the 20th Anniversary edition of Richard Heinberg’s Musletter. From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the...

Armed with naïvete

My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we...

The peak oil crisis: closing out the year

The returns are in and we now know that world price of a barrel of oil averaged $111 in 2011. This was up 14 percent from last year and well above the previous high of $100 set in 2008....

Richard Heinberg on the Majority Report

Richard Heinberg

Credit: Majority Report | Download An interview with Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Cheap fuel,the engine that propelled the last 70 years of economic growth is no more. Interview begins at...

The End of Cheap Coal

David Fridley Richard Heinberg

World energy policy is gripped by a fallacy — the idea that coal is destined to stay cheap for decades to come. This assumption supports investment in ‘clean-coal’ technology and trumps serious efforts to increase energy conservation and develop...