756: Richard Heinberg on Power, Energy, and Climate ChangeWorking to remove fossil fuels from the food system

In This Podcast: Richard Heinberg joins the show to talk about how our power and energy systems affect our food system and how that affects the planet's ability to sustain our species. He shares his insight on how we've gotten to where we are now and some proposed solutions that are based on self-limiting our power. He gives us ways to get involved and to be more educated.

Richard is a senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He's an author, educator, and lecturer, and has spoken widely on energy and climate issues to audiences across the globe. He's the author of fourteen books, including the most recent Power Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, along with his podcast of the same name. He is widely published in Nature, the Wall Street Journal and literary review, and has delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences on six continents, addressing policymakers at many levels

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