Energy

“There’s No App for That” Interview — Richard Heinberg

By James Howard Kunstler, originally published by KunstlerCast

September 5, 2017

Join James Howard Kunstler as he interviews Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg for the Kunstlercast. Richard talks both about his book Our Renewable Future, coauthored with PCI Fellow David Fridley, and his latest essay There’s No App for That: Technology and Morality in the Age of Climate Change, Overpopulation, and Biodiversity Loss.

Originally posted at Kunstlercast

James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler lives in upstate New York and is the author of about 20 books, 14 novels and the rest are non-fiction.  These include The Geography of Nowhere, about the suburbanisation of America, The Long Emergency, about the energy predicament and financial predicaments of our time, and the prospects for collapse, and Too Much Magic, an update of The Long Emergency about wishful thinking and technology.  He also recently completed a four book series of novels set in the post-collapse American future under the rubric ‘World Made by Hand’.

Tags: Our Renewable Future

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Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

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Noah's Ark

Iran to Trump: If you destroy us, you destroy yourself

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

So, there you have it. Trump and his team have stumbled into a war they cannot win. If the war does not end soon, it will likely destroy the world economy for lack of energy supplies and plunge it into a deep, years-long depression, one from which it will be difficult to emerge.

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Entropia and the Disintegration of Empire

By Samuel Alexander, Resilience.org

As the current situation (March 2026) around the Strait of Hormuz continues to destabilise the global economy, it is timely to return to Alexander’s analysis outlining ‘the Disintegration of Empire’ (being Chapter Two of Entropia).

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