Robert Labaree News Today

Learn how humanity can exercise collective self-restraint to navigate the social and environmental crises of the 21st century. The world is in overshoot.

The optimum power principle can be defined as the tendency of natural and human systems to sacrifice some measure of power in the present, so as to maximize power over a longer period of time.

We will have to sacrifice, engage with dilemmas, and relinquish some power. This will be challenging, but it can also be enriching.

Over the 19th and 20th centuries physical power, social power, and economies grew explosively. The main cause was humanity’s exploitation of fossil fuels.

Richard Heinberg, renowned energy and sustainability expert, explores the development of social power – simply defined as the ability to get other people to do something.

As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.

Explore how power functions in nature, including predator/prey relationships, self-balancing mechanisms in organisms and ecosystems, and the maximum power principle.

And so it's important to be able to see when there's too much power in a system, and then to know what to do about it.

“Ballot Boxing” aims to inform readers about the power of going to the polls.