 richard heinberg (born 1950) is an american journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion. he is the author of eleven books. he serves as the senior fellow at the post carbon institute. ==career== heinberg, after two years in college and a period of personal study, became personal assistant to immanuel velikovsky in november 1979 and after velikovsky's death assisted mrs. velikovsky editing manuscripts.contributors. kronos vi(2), winter 1981.sammer, jan. the velikovsky archive. aeon vi(2), dec. 2001. he published his first book in 1989, memories and visions of paradise: exploring the universal myth of a lost golden age,los angeles, calif.: tarcher. 282 pp. isbn 0-87477-515-9. which was the result of ten years of study of world mythology. an expanded second edition was published in 1995.wheaton, ill,: quest books. 294 pp. isbn 083560716. he began publishing his alternative newsletter, the museletter, in 1992. his next book was published in 1993: celebrate the solstice: honoring the earth's seasonal rhythms through festival and ceremony.wheaton, ill.: quest books. 199 pp. isbn 0-8356-0693-7. in june 1995, speaking to the international society for the comparative study of civilizations in dayton, ohio, heinberg provided "a primitivist critique of civilization" and discussed the ways in which "we are, it would seem, killing the planet." his books from the later 1990s address the relationships be
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