Remembering Richard Heinberg: Why I made degrowth art in his memory
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: Why I made degrowth art in his memory
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: Turning his advice for young people into an inspiring coloring book
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Amongst Richard Heinberg's legacy is the narration he did for this video;
'300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds'
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Today I learned that Richard Heinberg was killed in July this year, by pancreatic cancer, age 76;
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-04/devastating-news-the-loss-of-richard-heinberg/
Some of his typically pragmatic advice on living through the accelerating collapse of industrial civilization is quoted by @DoomsdaysCW late last year;
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115243984537902927#RIP Richard. You were one of the best of us.
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I've just learned of the death of Richard Heinberg
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-04/devastating-news-the-loss-of-richard-heinberg/
Followers of the Peak Oil discussion of the mid-aughts through mid-2010s likely came across Heinberg's books on the topic, or the sites Resilience and The Post Carbon Institute with which he was associated.
Heinberg died suddenly 19 July 2026 several weeks after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
There are a number of other rememberances and obituaries online:
"Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘One of my core mentors is gone’" https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-30/in-memoriam-richard-heinberg-one-of-my-core-mentors-is-gone/
"Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Tribute to the man behind the legend’" https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-04/remembering-richard-heinberg-tribute-to-the-man-behind-the-legend/"
"In Memoriam: Recollections of Richard Heinberg" https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-29/in-memoriam-recollections-of-richard-heinberg/'
Obituary: https://everloved.com/life-of/richard-heinberg/obituary/?flow=201
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@urlyman An absolute great idea that protocol... Maybe in an alternative reality we could've saved ourselves applying it and Campbell would've received the Peace Nobel prize or something. In this sad universe of ours only the Portuguese parliament approved it, but to no use at all. 🤦🏻
#UppsalaProtocol #RiminiProtocol #RichardHeinberg #PeakOil #ColinCampbell
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@urlyman We were tooting with #RichardHeinberg tag then and the days after his passing. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-23/devastating-news-the-loss-of-richard-heinberg/ We even translated some pieces into Spanish and Galician for our @revista 15/15\15, like this one: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/08/14/a-mensaxe-de-richard-heinberg-para-os-musicos-en-tempos-de-colapso/
I highly recommend this lenghy interview I had the honour to do with him just a few months ago: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/04/04/20-years-after-the-oil-depletion-protocol-an-interview-with-richard-heinberg/
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Mentres se imprime en Betanzos o noso número compilatorio de verán (-4), seguimos a lembrar no noso web o desaparecido Richard Heinberg. Desta volta en galego e dirixido especialmente á xente que se dedica (ou quere dedicar) á música nestes tempos de colapso da civilización do petróleo: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/08/14/a-mensaxe-de-richard-heinberg-para-os-musicos-en-tempos-de-colapso/
#Musica #Colapso #Decrecemento #RichardHeinberg
🎨 de @casdeiro
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Forever the empathetic observer and thinker’
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was one of the clearest and steadiest voices addressing fossil-fuel dependence’
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Tribute to the man behind the legend’
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was a vital inspiration for so much of my life and work’
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was a vital inspiration for so much of my life and work’
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Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘One of my core mentors is gone’
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In Memoriam: Recollections of Richard Heinberg
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Los compas de Crisis Energética también recuerdan a Richard Heinberg con una recopilación de textos suyos traducidos al castellano y publicados en su web: https://www.crisisenergetica.org/article.php?story=20260725142917669
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Rather than informing the American people of this and asking for a national consensus based on a shared willingness to cooperatively reduce living standards, what they're doing is to quietly put in place the mechanisms for an authoritarian regime. When the time comes they will enforce that on the American people."He saw it coming so clearly... in 2005! Rest in peace, dear Richard.
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(1/2) Richard Heinberg wrote this in 2005!
"The deep leadership, not the people we elect but the people who are actually making the decisions, are aware of the general trend of events. They see the American standard of living cannot be supported. (...)" -
I share this wonder from Heinberg's book Powerdown (2004):
'Sermon on the Collapse'
Blessed are those who depend least on modern technology,
for they have not forgotten how to take care of themselves.
Blessed are those whose culture is communitarian and not individualist,
for they will share and prosper.
Blessed are they who have no exploitable natural resources,
for no one will bother them.
Blessed are those who know how to grow food,
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"Luchar por el acceso a unos recursos que se agotan conducirá a la civilización a la ruina absoluta, a una ruina de la que no cabe recuperarse. Nuestra única esperanza reside en cooperar para reducir la escala de nuestro consumo de energía y de recursos y en compartir los que queden."
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"La defensa del Decrecimiento ya está haciendo énfasis en una mayor calidad de vida como objetivo alternativo a la expansión económica perpetua. Y eso resulta atractivo para mucha gente, especialmente a medida que se están viendo más estresados, vigilando constamente sus espaldas por si la IA les va a quitar su puesto de trabajo."
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"A medida que la extracción del tight oil norteamericano comience a caer, unido a la infraestructura petrolífera de Oriente Medio destruida por la guerra, el mundo va recibir una dura lección."
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"[los países que no son capaces de importar suficiente petróleo debido al cierre del Estrecho de Ormuz] deberían sacar de esta experiencia una lección: que la adicción económica al petróleo conlleva sufrimiento a múltiples niveles, incluyendo el síndrome de abstinencia. La solución no consiste en encontrar un camello más fiable, sino en reducir la dependencia."
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"La Naturaleza recompensa a aquellos organismos que maximizan la potencia, y los humanos somos la especie más potente que ha existido, en parte como resultado de los combustibles fósiles. Estamos ebrios de potencia, somos adictos a ella. Pero también sufrimos los efectos secundarios de ese exceso de potencia. La falta de equidad económica creciente y los dilemas ecológicos, que también están agravándose, son síntomas de dicho exceso de potencia."
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"una definición más amplia de "colapso" sería "una pérdida de organización y de escala, una simplificación (a menudo involuntaria) de la sociedad". El colapso, en este segundo sentido, resulta inevitable, sencillamente porque la Humanidad ha aumentado su número y su uso de recursos hasta niveles que no se pueden sostener en el largo plazo. Pero aún podríamos simplificarnos de tal manera que se minimizase el sufrimiento y las víctimas."
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"Lo que necesitamos es obvio: reducir la extracción y la quema de combustibles fósiles. Lo que tenemos, en cambio, es una discusión sin fin acerca de cómo hay que hacer eso sin dañar a los países productores de petróleo [...] ¿El resultado de todo esto cuál es? Que consumimos más combustibles fósiles, no menos. La gente ve esto y concluye que la clase política es inútil y que nos está llevando al despeñadero, lo cual es bastante cierto."
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"El problema que tiene actualmente la Humanidad no es simplemente que estemos usando las fuentes de energía equivocadas, sino también que estamos usando la energía a niveles insostenibles."
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"Cuando la estrategia del "hacerse rico ahora" se topa con sus límites, la tendencia de la élite es acaparar, lo cual crea más inequidad y desabastecimientos. La solución consiste en compartir de modo equitativo por medio del racionamiento, al tiempo que se reduce la población y el consumo global."
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"Quienes deciden están asumiendo que haciéndonos más ricos ahora, vamos a crear oportunidades para nuestros descendientes, principalmente en forma de nuevas tecnologías. Pero si el agotamiento de recursos, la contaminación y la destrucción de la Naturaleza continúan por el camino que llevan, a lo que se enfrenta nuestra descendencia es a un futuro horrible incluso aunque tengan acceso a tecnologías maravillosas."
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Apenas 3 meses antes de su fallecimiento tuvimos el privilegio de entrevistarle: "La mejor solución para la fase de declive de los combustibles fósiles es racionar lo que queda. De ese modo, evitamos la lucha, la injusticia en el reparto y los desabastecimientos de combustible, que pueden ser letales."
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Também em português, o texto sobre o pasamento do conhecido divulgador norte-americano do #Peakoil #Decrescimento #PeakEverything https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/07/24/a-devastadora-perda-de-richard-heinberg/
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Devastados por la noticia del fallecimiento de Heinberg, compartimos la traducción de la nota necrológica publicada por el Post Carbon Institute: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2026/07/24/la-devastadora-perdida-de-richard-heinberg/
#RichardHeinberg #Decrecimiento #Colapso #Peakoil #PeakEverything
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@amturiel Ya tenemos la nota publicada por el Post Carbon Institute: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-23/devastating-news-the-loss-of-richard-heinberg/
¡Qué pérdida más dolorosa! #RichardHeinberg
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Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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Since we started #SolarPunkSunday early (yesterday), I'm going to re-post some of those toots, and then call it a day... Join us again next weekend!
Leaving you all with this piece from
#RichardHeinberg's Power and Prospects for Human Survival, 2021."Advice to Young People in the 21st Century
- Learn to grow food. Study permaculture.
- Learn to read people. You're going to need to know whether people in your vicinity are trustworthy.
- Be trustworthy. Otherwise smart and trustworthy people won't associate with you.
- Learn to express yourself clearly and persuasively.
- It is okay not to reproduce. There are already plenty of people in the world.
- Learn to make decisions by consensus and to work collaboratively. Be a person with whom others enjoy working.
- Lear to repair and use relatively simple technologies.
- Studying to be a computer programmer or hacker could pay off in the short run, but ove the longer term you'll benefit more from learning to fix farming and construction tools and small engines. Learn to make spare parts from junk.
- Learn how energy works. be able to identify sources of energy in your environment and find ways to harness that energy to do useful work.
- Learn to defend yourself. Sadly, for the remainder of this century the world is likely to be a more violent place. Even if that turns out not to be the case, martial arts can still be useful paths of self-discipline.
- Learn to heal the human body via nutrition, herbs and basic emergency care.
- Learn to recognize the subjective effects f sex hormones, dopamine, and other brain chemicals, and find ways to override those effects when they threated to push you off course. Instead, channel their effects to help achieve goals.
- Learn about nature. memorize the names of local plants, birds and insects, and observe their habits. Learn to be more comfortable in the wild.
- Learn how to produce beauty via art, music, or movement, and how to engage others in creative, celebratory activities.
- Learn to emotionally process trauma and grief, and to help others do so. Learn when and how to use humor to release tension.
No one can do it all, but do your best."#SolarPunkSunday #LoTech #GrowYourOwn #BuildingCommunity #DIY #Permaculture #RightToRepair
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So, I've been reading "Power - Limits and Prospects for Human Survival" by Richard Heinberg (a recommendation from someone here). Wow! I found some great quotes to share in the near future. TY to whoever recommended it!
#LimitsToGrowth #RichardHeinberg #AmReading #Bookstodon #SolarPunkSunday #History #Futurism
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A typically cogent piece from Richard Heinberg.
Good to see this emphasis on the #bioregion as the appropriate scale to think about the (post #collapse) future. We've always emphasised this too, see thread to follow.Bioregioning Is Our Future - resilience https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-08-27/bioregioning-is-our-future/
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"Mostly, people in government, and people in say, the banking sector and in the financial industries, are completely clouded in their view by the apparent necessity of maintaining economic growth. They simply cannot imagine a future in which economic growth does not continue, and I think that really is an extraordinary hindrance to their being able to really engage honestly with these kinds of issues."
#RichardHeinberg, 2017
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"So, if we want to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, it's going to require our manufacturing an enormous number of PV panels and wind turbines. We're going to have to make that transition something like 10 times the current rate at which we're introducing renewable energy infrastructure."
#RichardHeinberg, 2017
#podcasts #RRR #GreeningTheApocalypse #RenewableEnergy #PealOil #FossilFuels
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An outstanding piece by #RichardHeinberg on what a sane response to our energy/climate realities would look like:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-08-22/what-would-a-real-renewable-energy-transition-look-like/