Richard Heinberg

is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He is the author of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (Post Carbon Institute, 2013), The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (New Society, 2011) and The Partyâs Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (New Society, 2003).

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Boom or bust time for critical thinking?

A conversation with Richard Heinberg

Following the massive bailouts, stimulus spending and quantitative easing of recent years, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went back to sleep, says Richard Heinberg. But the coming global energy crisis will likely provide the jolt that wakes everyone up again.