By webmaster Sunday July 26th 2009 1:44 Central European Time

Ecologist Richard Heinberg is the head of the Post Carbon Institute and the author of he Party’s Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything. In this interview he talks about the future of the human species with a lesser and lesser supply of fossil fuels. He also points out that the human species is no different from other species when it comes to what happens if the resources needed to support the current number of human organisms on this planet become inadequate. He even dares say that population growth constitutes a problem. In other words, he dares to say what in the eyes of many people is a taboo even to think.

In the “Must see” category we pick interesting and inspiring videos that we find on the video sharing sites, mainly YouTube, showing people who are in general not associated with GLI, but do things that we believe our readers will enjoy watching.

Links

http://www.richardheinberg.com/

Post carbon institute

Further reading:

• Must see: Carl Sagan 10 years after the making of Cosmos
• Understanding peak oil
• Must see: A farm for the future
• Must see: Transition movement’s Rob Hopkins on TED-talks
• Must see: The transition movement movie

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