Power, Richard Heinberg
Power, Richard Heinberg
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Power
Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

Author: Richard Heinberg

Narrator: David Skulski

Unabridged: 13 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. — Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources ― most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens — one species among millions — become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse? These questions — and their answers — will determine our fate.

About Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg is the author of books including Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis; Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines; and The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse. He has authored numerous essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, the Ecologist, and Public Policy Research, and has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour. Richard is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Randall

The US spells “aluminium” wrong simply because a telegraph operator spelt it wrong when the British discovery was conveyed to the US and forgot the extra “i”. Nietzsche had a softer (non- Will to Power) side when he wrote, “I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and p......more

Goodreads review by Hugh

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival POWER is Richard Heinbergs latest book and is a departure from the kind of books he has authored in the past. His previous books have dealt with humanity’s relation to the use and extraction of our finite natural resources and what that is doing to our......more

Goodreads review by Smillerman

Review of “Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival” by Richard Heinberg Power is an important book about the factors that gave rise to the enormous growth of the human enterprise, which is now bumping into planetary limits (with climate change being just one of the symptoms), and risks serious......more

Goodreads review by Ruah

Richard Heinberg has dutifully written many books about the planet's energy crisis. The books include: The Party's Over, Peak Everything, and The End of Growth. They are all important reads for our day. But Power goes beyond any narrow look at our crisis. He examines all the different kinds of power......more

Goodreads review by Terry

After reading the book, I saw a pretty accurate, positive review on Amazon about this new book. The reviewer gave it 4 stars b/c Heinberg went overboard with the chapters on molecular biology and early evolution. I still give the book 5 stars b/c it is such an important contribution to the discussion......more

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