By Richard Heinberg, Melody Travers, Rob Dietz, Resilience.org
If we want to address this problem and reduce the chances of a chaotic collapse of society, we will have to confront our overuse and abuse of power.
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
Power is essential; without it, we would be literally powerless. But one can have too much of a good thing. How much power is enough? How much is too much?
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
With fossil fuels and electrification, and thus greater mobility and instant communications, we have indeed become a human “hive.”
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
Whether in family, school, work, or politics, we’re all immersed in the pathologies of power. If we’re lucky, we learn to navigate these waters without being harmed irreparably, and without harming others. Many are not so fortunate.
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
The power to communicate aesthetic pleasure and thereby to feel profound affinity with other people, including individuals of other species, propel human culture forward in ways that are hard to measure, but that are impossible to ignore. These are powers that provide hope for our future.
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
There are probably downsides to humans’ specialized powers (extreme intelligence, a highly developed ability to communicate, and proficient tool use). We humans tend to emphasize the advantages of these traits, but it’s always important to look for hidden costs.
By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers
One might think that everything that could possibly be written on the subject of power already has been. There are thousands of tomes that discuss subjects related to power in one or another of its many manifestations, and hundreds with the word power in their titles. But no book that I’m aware of has systematically examined the sundry forms of power, and investigated how they are related, how they arose, and what they mean for us today.
By Susan Clark, Resilience.org
Power, inclusion, and deliberation work together—slowly but surely—to yield stronger, more resilient communities.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Just as the humble American pika has developed strategies to avoid overshooting its environmental limits, we can and must rein in the extreme powers that currently threaten our success and even our survival.
By Apoorva Dhingra, Uneven Earth
At a time when the spaces we inhabit determine our chances to survive a deadly virus, it is crucial to challenge canonical urban planning and its deep failures in the Global South.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
A brilliant and searching probe into power in all its forms, this book shows how our species’ pursuit, overuse and abuse of power is plunging us ever deeper into existential crisis.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
The only real long-range solution to climate change centers on reining in human physical, social, and economic power dramatically, but in ways that preserve human dignity, autonomy, and solidarity.