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Richard Heinberg

  • Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
United States
As seen in: Medium, Bloomberg CityLab, Reuters, Quartz, Flipboard, The News International, Common Dreams, EcoWatch, HotAir, The Wire (India) and
Senior Fellow @postcarbon @buildresilience | Author of Power, Our Renewable Future, The End of Growth, and others.
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Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation

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By Richard Heinberg
| Resilience.org Verified
From the archive: This piece was originally published on September 23, 2025 Gen Z is a generation born into a world full of anxieties—from school shootings to climate Armageddon to a pandemic and political violence. But I’m here to give you one more thing to worry about! A high-stakes debate about the timing of peak oil has been simmering for decades. Although few of today’s Gen Z members know much about it, their lives will be impacted profoundly by the waning of the petroleum era.
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Gratitude in the Great Unraveling

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By Richard Heinberg
| Resilience.org Verified
From the archive: This piece was originally published on October 21, 2025. Here’s a paradox. On one hand, terrible things are happening. Earth’s climate system is being destabilized, the oceans are turning acidic, wild animals are disappearing, economic inequality is soaring, politics are becoming more polarized and democracies more dysfunctional, and toxic chemicals are turning up in the bodies of people and other creatures in even the remotest and least-disturbed places on the planet.
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As America turns 250, its attention to continued survival fades and fractures

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By Richard Heinberg
| Countercurrents
Photo by RDNE Stock project/Pexels United States politicians, even Democratic ones, no longer mention climate change, according to a recent report by Grist. Evidently, after their 2024 election losses, Democrats concluded that global warming isn’t a winning issue. Their calculus is somewhat confirmed by a recent Pew poll that ranks climate change only ninth among Americans’ top concerns.
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