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Richard Heinberg interviewed on ABC
Ticky Fullerton, host of the ABC’s The Business program, talks to US author Richard Heiberg about Peak Oil, the limits to our current model of growth, and Richard’s new book “The End of Growth”. Richard is in Australia for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and some talks for Sustainable Population Australia. Following is Richard’s schedule:
Sydney — Tuesday 18 September — Guthrie Theatre, University of Technology Sydney, 6.30 pm. RSVP 02 9680 3245 or nsw@population.org.au
Canberra — Friday 21 September — Manning Clark Theatre 2, ANU 7 pm. Bookings: http://richardheinbergincanberra.eventbrite.com/ Entry by gold coin donation
Melbourne — Saturday 22 September — Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, 7.30 pm. Inquiries Jenny Warfe warfej@bigpond.com, Entry $5.00.
Adelaide — Tuesday 25 September — Barbara Hanrahan Bldg, UniSA West Campus 7.00 pm. Bookings: John Coulter — 8388 2153 — jrpfc@bigpond.com
Perth — Thursday 27 September — Wesfarmers Lect Theatre, UWA Business School, Hackett Drive, Crawley, 6 pm. Inquiries: Peter Strachan. pstrach@iinet.net.au
Sydney — Saturday 29 September — Sydney Opera House, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, 2pm.
10 Comments on "Richard Heinberg interviewed on ABC"
Arthur on Mon, 17th Sep 2012 5:20 pm
Good news! Finally taken seriously.
Eric on Mon, 17th Sep 2012 5:31 pm
I really like the part where the concept that we cannot grow forever on a finite planet is considered “radical” by most viewers. Of course, she’s correct.
Newfie on Mon, 17th Sep 2012 9:41 pm
Never ending growth is a mass delusion of the modern era. It’s analogous to a religion – the cult of growth.
BillT on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 1:28 am
EROEI…
Chuck on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 2:01 am
He’s wrong about economies didn’t grow during pre-industrialization… The western world grew quite a bit threw conquering other nation and colonizing new worlds. So what happens win there is nothing left to conquer?
MrEnergyCzar on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 3:43 am
Very calm and well spoken. The Party’s over is a great book of his…
MrEnergyCzar
Peter Foster-Bunch on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 4:23 am
Richard is dead right, of course, and his point on net energy or EROEI is right on the mark. If the energy to produce CSG or shale gas means the return on investment is marginal then growth that requires affordable energy to work we have to reduce our expectations and live within our current or even lesser means.
pfb
Ham on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 10:18 am
History will prove him correct.
Arthur on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 11:00 am
History will prove the Club of Rome correct, who really started the awareness campaign, as the journalist Heinberg will be the first to admit, and had great influence on my life in the seventees, as they determined my choice of study (energy engineering).
Kenz300 on Tue, 18th Sep 2012 1:01 pm
Finite resources meets endless population growth with disastrous results.