Richard Heinberg Peak Everything -- the end of non-renewable resources

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Richard Heinberg Peak Everything -- the end of non-renewable resources Ecobuild 1st March Excel London
richard@postcarbon.org
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We understand that the earth's resources aren't infinite, yet we behave as though they were. Humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and the road ahead will be mostly downhill, until levels of consumption can be maintained by renewable resources harvested at sustainable rates. Industrial expansion has been mainly supported by our accelerating use of the concentrated energies of cheap fossil fuels, and as they cease to be cheap and abundant, economic growth cannot continue - a change which will impact every aspect of human existence - financial systems, food systems, global trade - at both the macro and micro levels, and changing everything.




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Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, author of nine books including 'Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis'

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  • Thanks for uploading this. Always good to hear up to the minute info from Richard Heinberg.

    PS - sack the cameraman ;-)

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