About Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and author of several books on energy and the environment, including Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels, and, with David Fridley, Our Renewable Future. His upcoming book is Power: Humanity’s Quest for Ability, Control, Influence, and Beauty—and How It All Went Wrong.

Show Highlights:

• Connections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to the different aspects of our society
• Reliance on economic efficiency to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Why Resilience and economic efficiency can't go together
• How Permaculture is a strategic program in times of disasters
• The problem of our denial mechanism in dealing with real issues
• Resilience victory gardens for the future

Links:

• Richard Heinberg's Website
• Post Carbon Institute
• Resilience.org