Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Food, Transportation and Education in a Post-Carbon Society
Renewable energies will not save our always-on, constantly growing, high-energy economy. But many aspects of contemporary technology, plus lessons from our long history, can help us in the "sufficient economy" of the future.
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
Power, Richard Heinberg's most ambitious book to date, explores how Homo sapiens—one species among millions—became powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth’s climate.
Too Much Power
This article, the third in a series, is based on the author’s forthcoming book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL. You can read the first article in the series here, and the second here. For information about the book and...