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 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’.
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