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Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival - How to Navigate Power with Wisdom

How to Navigate Power with Wisdom

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

01/24/23 • 21 min

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First wisdom, then action. Richard Heinberg shares insights from his deep dive into the nature of power and power relationships. He addresses the three main "power tools": money, weapons, and communication technologies with humble and thoughtful advice on how to approach them. You’ll have the chance to contemplate how you might live your most authentic life with moderation, rationality, responsibility, and sometimes sacrifice. And you’ll learn how to evaluate potential solutions to global environmental and social problems by answering a simple question about how power is shared (or how it is not). For more information, please visit our website.

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01/24/23 • 21 min

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Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival - How to Navigate Power with Wisdom

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How to Navigate Power with Wisdom

Hi, this is Richard Heinberg, author of POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL, and welcome to this bonus episode of the POWER podcast.

In both the book POWER, and in the podcast, I say that my purpose in writing is to explore the historical process that got us to our current existential global crisis, and to help us all develop wisdom and perspective in this daunting historical moment. My goal isn’t to come up with new

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