A two part conversation between Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything, The Party’s Over and the newly published The End of Growth, and James Howard Kunstler. The conversation covers peak oil, financial dysfunction, political convulsions, generational conflict, techno-grandiosity, the fate of industrial agriculture and the suburban living arrangement. Heinberg also reacts to being labeled a “Doomer.”.
KunstlerCast: The end of growth
By James Howard Kunstler, originally published by KunstlerCast
September 6, 2011
James Howard Kunstler
Tags: Consumption & Demand, Culture & Behavior, Energy Policy, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Resource Depletion
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