Richard Heinberg—PCI Senior Fellow and author of the new book, POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival—was interviewed by Michael Welch for the Global Research News Hour podcast.

Our species is Homo Sapiens, latin for the ‘wise ape.’ (We, of course, named ourselves!) The divine gift that allowed us to survive in ancient times is now threatening us with a catastrophic extinction. How can this trap be undone?

Joining us today on the Global Research News Hour is a man who has devoted decades of research to the question of surviving this dependence on fossil fuels, and is very much a proponent of transition – Richard Heinberg.