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A New Covenant with Nature
Richard Heinberg on energy limits, ecological overshoot and rebuilding our relationship with the living world.
Richard Heinberg · Senior Fellow
Post Carbon Institute
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- Energy Transition
- Ecological Overshoot
- Resource Limits
- Climate Science
- Global Heating
- Sustainability
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The argument
About this talk
Published by the Theosophical Society. Richard Heinberg argues that the modern economy's relationship with the natural world rests on a temporary abundance of fossil energy, and that the end of that abundance requires a fundamentally different agreement with nature.
He traces how energy use shaped population, agriculture and consumption, and what an honest reckoning with ecological limits would mean in practice.
This recording is published by the Theosophical Society on its official YouTube channel. Credit and all rights belong to the Theosophical Society and the speaker; MEER links to it for reference only.
Indexed knowledge
Key topics covered
The signal
Key takeaways
Energy underpins everything
Population, food systems and consumption all scaled with cheap fossil energy.
Overshoot is the frame
Climate is one symptom of a broader pattern of exceeding ecological limits.
Why MEER includes it
It situates surface cooling within the wider question of how societies live inside planetary limits.
Questions worth asking
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About the speaker
Richard Heinberg
Senior Fellow · Post Carbon Institute
Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and one of the best-known writers on energy, resource limits and the transition away from fossil fuels. He is the author of numerous books on peak oil, energy descent and ecological economics.
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Theosophical Society
This talk was recorded and published by the Theosophical Society on its official YouTube channel. Credit and all rights belong to the Theosophical Society and the speaker.
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