Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (19 page)

About the Author

RICHARD HEINBERG is the award-winning author of 10 previous books including
The Party’s Over
,
Powerdown
,
Peak Everything
, and
The End of Growth
. He is senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost peak oil educators. He is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert award for excellence in energy education and since 2002 has given over five hundred lectures on fossil fuel depletion to audiences around the world. He has been published in
Nature
, the world’s premiere scientific journal; he has been quoted in
Time
magazine and other major publications; and he has been interviewed on national radio and television in seven countries.

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About Post Carbon Institute

Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, environmental, and equity crises that define the 21st century.

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