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Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is the author of eleven books including: Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (2013) The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality (2011) Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (2009) Peak Everything: Waking Up... show more

Richard Heinberg is the author of eleven books including: Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (2013) The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality (2011) Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (2009) Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007) The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006) Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004) The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003)He is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, The Ecologist, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, Pacific Ecologist, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, TheOilDrum.com, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.He has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour, and is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education.More information about Richard can be found on his website: richardheinberg.com
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Birth date: January 01, 1950
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Vilja Reads
Vilja Reads rated it 10 years ago
The title of the book states its content. The Club of Rome wrote on the limits of growth; now, Heinberg argues, we've reached them. Our economic system is based on continual growth of the GDP. If that growth is driven by cheap energy, and cheap energy is at an end as easily accessible carbon fuel so...
realityinabox
realityinabox rated it 12 years ago
I am torn about this book. It was a bit of a downer pretty much the whole way through. I liked that it touched on the financial markets, but not really in any depth. The same could be said for the entire book. I felt like "Limits to Growth" was a better argument for the end of growth concept, an...
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