Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 2: War and peace in a shrinking economy
The following is Part 2 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Will increasing...
Against growth: A conversation with economist Joshua Farley
This is an exceprt. The full interview appears at Eurozine. Almantas Samalavicius: The concept of ecological economics differs fundamentally from that one of neoclassical economics. However, it is the latter that seems to dominate globally, despite its obvious failings...
Paul Gilding on the Great Disruption
Credit: Radio National: Sunday Extra | Download Paul Gilding is calling for a complete reset on the climate debate, saying we will not get a global agreement on climate change and it’s a waste of time to think we ever will. And...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 1 – The 21st century landscape of conflict
Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Many of the readers of postcarbon.org, Energy Bulletin, and now Resilience.org, have come to share a certain view of the world. It’s probably fair to say that, as a group, we see...
Fossil Food & Agriculture – Richard Heinberg Q&A
While researching the topic of sustainable agriculture for a paper, high school junior Rhian Moore came across the work of PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. Rhian reached out to Richard for more information on the topic. Below are Rhian’s...
Modernity bites
There is surely a correspondence between an exhausted culture and a populace devolved so far into mental dullness that it can’t recognize its predicament. We don’t seem to get how much the industrial production spree of the past 200...
IT’S HERE! ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth
Introducing our most ambitious publishing effort to date: ENERGY: Overdevelopment & the Delusion of Endless Growth. A partnership between the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Post Carbon Institute, this 336-page coffee table book is an unprecedented, visually-rich exploration of...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Descent Into Chaos
There is a growing disconnect between forecasts of prodigious amounts of oil coming out of the Middle East in coming decades and what is likely to happen in the region. The Middle East today is a patchwork of geographical...
A Historic Binational Agreement Gives New Life to the Colorado River Delta
The Cienega de Santa Clara is an area of Delta wetlands sustained by agricultural drainage crossing into Mexico from the United States. The beautiful Cienega is a reminder of what the larger Delta used to be. Photo credit: Pronatura...
The Peak Oil Crisis: Alternative Futures
A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade. The paper, entitled Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures, starts with...