Oil Age Presentation Script. Below is the script written by Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg for the presentation Post Carbon Institute would like to create for all the hundreds of concerned citizens out there who have asked us over the years for help in educating their neighbors, family, and friends about the end of the oil age.
I've adapted the script a bit to include mention of my family, just as presenters will be able to adapt the content and images to reflect personal and community histories. We need your help to finish this presentation and provide training to a cadre of folks — maybe even you? — in order to get this conversation going in communities across the country. So, if you can, please consider supporting this campaign. Visit & Support our IndieGoGo campaign Nearly everyone would agree that we live in uncertain, challenging times. It’s evident, for example, that over the past century the economy has grown, and many of us pay particular attention to that.
Per capita incomes have increased. Richard Heinberg | Author. Educator. Speaker. #226: Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing? | Richard Heinberg. MuseLetter #226 / March 2011 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 104 KB) This article is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Richard’s new book ‘The End of Growth’, which is set for publication by New Society Publishers in September 2011.
Access previous chapters here. Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing? I want to believe in innovation and its possibilities, but I am more thoroughly convinced of entropy. In the course of researching and writing this book, I discussed its central thesis—that world economic growth has come to an end—with several economists, various businesspeople, a former hedge fund manager, a top-flight business consultant, and the former managing director of one of Wall Street’s largest investment banks, as well as several ecologists and environmental activists. Substitutes Forever Fast forward to the early 21st century.
But from an economic point of view the biggest problem with corn ethanol was its low energy return. 1. 2. Richard Heinberg (richardheinberg) sur Twitter. The End of growth-Richard Heinberg. Richard Heinberg Peak Everything -- the end of non-renewable resources. Richard Heinberg. Richard Heinberg is an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of eleven books. He serves as the senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. Career[edit] Heinberg, after two years in college and a period of personal study, became personal assistant to Immanuel Velikovsky in November 1979 and after Velikovsky's death assisted Mrs. Velikovsky editing manuscripts.[1][2] He published his first book in 1989, Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age,[3] which was the result of ten years of study of world mythology. An expanded second edition was published in 1995.[4] He began publishing his alternative newsletter, the MuseLetter, in 1992.
His next book was published in 1993: Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony.[5] Publications[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]