With the Paris Climate Summit fast approaching, isn’t it a good time to use the insights of Richard Heinberg’s AFTERBURN as a context and starting point for a conversation about what can come next, about what is needed following the current world-wide Conflagration? Heinberg’s penetrating understanding of the crises and dilemmas we face precedes suggestions about what we might actually do to respond constructively and cooperatively.

Aerial view of an oil fire following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Gulf of Mexico; © Daniel Beltra Courtesy: Population Speak Out / populationspeakout.org

Ground zero in the war on nature—cattle graze amongst burning Amazon jungle, Brazil; © Daniel Beltra. Courtesy: Population Speak Out / populationspeakout.org
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