Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning — the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas — must come to an end during the next few decades. If the twentieth century was all about increasing our burn rate year after blazing year, the dominant trend of twenty-first century will be a gradual flame-out.
This video is the second in a four-part series by Richard Heinberg and Post Carbon Institute. The themes covered in these videos are much more thoroughly explored in Heinberg’s latest book, Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels.
Buy the book (use coupon code PCI2015 for a 20% discount through June 14, 2015): http://newsociety.com/Books/A/Afterburn
Read the book's introduction: http://www.postcarbon.org/announcing-...