Heinberg keynote speech reviewed in the Vancouver Observer
February 11, 2012
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s speech to kick off the World Community Film Festival was reviewed in the Vancouver Observer.
From the article:
How much do regular folks really know about the economy? Richard Heinberg wants you to understand one crucial thing about it. It’s finished.
About 300 people showed up to hear Heinberg speak last night at Langara college where he presented the argument that makes up the basis of his latest book, The End of Growth. The first half of Heinberg’s message is that the growth economy as we know it is played out. There will be no recovery. It’s done. Kaput. According to Heinberg, the idea that a global economy can grow forever on a finite world has always been flawed, a case of baseless wishful thinking propped up by a couple hundred years of cheap energy and various financial bubbles…
This could be incredibly depressing, but Heinberg is quick to follow up with the second half of his message… it’s a one shot deal.