Interview with Richard Heinberg

Excerpt from interview with Richard Heinberg, widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators, having delivered hundreds of lectures on oil depletion to a wide variety of audiences around the world. He is the award-winning author of eight books including:

- The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies;
- Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World;
- The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse; and
- Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines.

His website is http://www.richardheinberg.com/.

Category:

Education

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• Peak
• Oil
• depletion
• author
• scholar
• educator
• environment
• protection

[Glargl]

I disagree with Richard on the point that everyone now understands BAU is not an option. TPTB are trying to get their respective countries back on the growth track - or at least so it would seem. The story is in any case being bough, hook, line and sinker, by the majority of "sheeple" and the MSM. Whether you're a bankster or a soccermom, it's in everyones short term interest to keep the game going, to pretend we are fixing the glitch or have hope for the continuation of growth.

[basmikiemike]

this guy is just another puppet!!! there is oil in the ground for another 500 years!!!!! they are soooo focussed on making us believe its over.....and in that perspective let us pay over 150 dollars per barrel.......they stink and this guy stinks also.........read and learn!!!!

[shox007]

@Glargl I agree. When he said that everybody understands it, it puzzled me. The US govt has bailed out many big businesses with a stimulus package to re-establish economic growth. Boeing has just rolled out their brand new 787's and 747-8's in the belief that air travel will resume its growth. Airbus still has to sell several hundred A380's to break even. And I suspect that the majority of the businesses and the population in general take growth for granted. So HARDLY ANYBODY understands.