59 Too Much of a Good Thing: Richard Heinberg
"Once a species becomes powerful enough to take over a planet, then is it also intelligent enough to understand the limits to its own power?" This is a question posed in the new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival. Author Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute and author of 13 books, including Power Down, The Party's Over, and The End of Growth.
Richard shares what his research has revealed about humankind's cultivation of power, including how we abuse it and how that now threatens our very existence.
"The sheer power of the Superorganism is staggering…
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