Richard Heinberg, senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of nine award-winning books including The Party’s Over, Powderhorn, Peak Everything, and Blackout, joins ZOOM’D to review his forthcoming book: The End of Growth. Richard describes how, as debt levels explode and energy and food prices escalate, our pathways that formerly led to economic prosperity now lead to disaster. Richard proposes a startling diagnosis: the global economy has reached a fundamental turning point—the end of growth—and the Great Recession we are in will not end in recovery. Still, we can thrive in comin
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