Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Joined: May 24, 2004 Posts: 1914 Location: Richland Center, Wisconsin
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: Biography - Richard Heinberg
Biography
Richard Heinberg is a journalist, educator, editor, lecturer, and musician. He has lectured widely, appearing on national radio and television in five countries. His essays have appeared in The Futurist, Intuition, The Sun, Brain/Mind Bulletin, Magical Blend, New Dawn, and elsewhere.
His monthly, MuseLetter, was nominated in 1994 by Utne Reader for an Alternative Press Award and has been included in Utne's annual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. He is the author of Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age; Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony; A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture; and Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology. (A New Covenant with Nature was a recipient of the 1997 Books to Live By Award of Excellence from Body/Mind/Spirit magazine.) Heinberg is a core faculty member of New College of California, where he teaches courses on Energy and Society, and Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community. He is an Honored Member of Strathmore's Who's Who Registry, is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in the World, and is a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is also an accomplished violinist and illustrator / book designer.
In 2002 Richard travelled to Avesta, Sweden, where he gave an invited paper on "Can Democracy and Genetic Engineering Coexist?" at the annual Engelsberg Seminar, whose topic this year is "Consciousness, Genetics and Society." Other scheduled presenters at the seminar include Jeremy Rifkin and Theodore Roszak.
He is best known by us as the author of "The Party's Over: Oil, War, and The Fate of Industrial Societies" and "Powerdown - Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World" EE
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