Carbon Tax: The Low Oil Price Opportunity
Carbon taxes constitute a widely discussed policy tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing humanity’s headlong rush toward catastrophic climate change. Taxing energy from fossil fuels makes that energy more expensive, thereby making renewable energy comparatively cheaper. There...
Heinberg interviewed on Redactie Radio Centraal
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg discusses PCI’s work in an interview on the Vorwaarts! show of Dutch radio station Redactie Radio Centraal. Part 1 Download Part 2 Download
Water Risks are Growing; Here’s a Tool to Help Us Prepare
Earlier this month, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, released its annual risk assessment, which looks across the spectrum of threats to society and ranks them. This year, it declared water crises to be the top global risk to...
Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that your hair and your fingernails kept growing after you died. The lesson seemed to be that it was hard to...
Six Foundations – Presentation to Community Action Partnership
American towns and cities face a series of economic, environmental, and social justice challenges that hit the most disadvantaged communities especially hard. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the idea of “community resilience” has gained popularity in recent years. But...
Climate Holism vs. Climate Reductionism
Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another. To explain why, it’s helpful to...
A Transition review, in 7 Episodes, of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
**Warning: SPOILER ALERT: if you don’t want to know what happens in the new Star Wars film, don’t read this. ** Like so very many people, I fell for the hype, and at vast expense, took my kids to...
Our Renewable Future: a talk for Willits Economic LocaLization
On a cool November Sunday the hall of the Little Lake Grange in Willits, CA, filled with members and supporters of WELL – Willits Economic Localization. 11 years earlier many of them had come to hear Richard Heinberg after...
What Geological, Economic, or Policy Forces Might Limit Fossil Fuel Production?
Presentation to the American Geophysical Union fall meeting, December 17, 2015, San Francisco; Union Session on “Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does It Mean for Climate Change?” To view a video of this talk follow the instructions at...
Touching the Earth.
It is said in Buddhism that just before his enlightenment, as the Buddha sat beneath the bodhi tree, he was challenged by Mara, the demon, who tried to distract him from attaining enlightenment with desire and fear. Mara demanded...