{"id":7411,"date":"2015-04-19T06:55:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2015-04-19T06:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:55:15","slug":"the-great-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7411","title":{"rendered":"The Great Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/the-great-burning\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Burning<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part two of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with\u00a0<em>Afterburn<\/em>:<em>\u00a0Society Beyond Fossil Fuels.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWhat will we do when the Great Burning comes to an end?<\/p>\n<p>In this short video, Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning \u2014 the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas \u2014 must come to an end during the next few decades. If the twentieth century was all about increasing our burn rate year after blazing year, the dominant trend of twenty-first century will be a gradual flame-out.<\/p>\n<p>This video is the second in a four-part series by Richard Heinberg and Post Carbon Institute. (<a title=\"The Law of Diminishing Returns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/the-law-of-diminishing-returns\/\">View Part 1 Here.<\/a>)The themes covered in these videos are much more thoroughly explored in Heinberg\u2019s latest book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/announcing-afterburn-society-beyond-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to view the video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Burning Part two of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with\u00a0Afterburn:\u00a0Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. What will we do when the Great Burning comes to an end? In this short video, Richard Heinberg explores why The Great Burning \u2014 the combustion of oil, coal, and natural gas \u2014 must come to an end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4827,4825,328,639,1081,4826],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-afterburn","tag-carbon-bubble","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-post-carbon-institute","tag-richard-heinberg","tag-the-great-burning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}