{"id":29057,"date":"2024-03-10T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/?p=29057"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:55:38","slug":"power-limits-and-prospects-for-human-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/?p=29057","title":{"rendered":"Power &#8211; Limits and prospects for human survival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Heinberg \u00e4r en flitig amerikansk f\u00f6rfattare inom h\u00e5llbarhetstemat med b\u00f6cker som The Party\u00b4s Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything och The End of Growth. Han \u00e4r verksam i The Post Carbon Institute och verkar framf\u00f6r allt f\u00f6r omst\u00e4llningen till ett fossilfritt samh\u00e4lle. I boken Power behandlar han det dubbeltydiga begreppet p\u00e5 engelska som betyder b\u00e5de kraft och makt. M\u00e4nniskan har under sin evolution st\u00e4ndigt f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttrat sin energieffektivitet rent biologiskt. Sedan jordbruket introducerades har andra kraftk\u00e4llor \u00e4n muskelkraft b\u00f6rjat anv\u00e4ndas samtidigt som den tidigare horizontella kulturella maktstrukturen ersattes av en horisontell med stora skillnader. Anv\u00e4ndningen av fossila br\u00e4nslen gav m\u00e4nskligheten ett oerh\u00f6rt starkt verktyg f\u00f6r att \u00f6ka kraften i b\u00e5de biologisk och kulturell mening. Utmaningen \u00e4r nu att minska m\u00e4nsklighetens kraft- och maktkoncentration f\u00f6r att kunna vidmakth\u00e5lla demokratiska samh\u00e4llen. En m\u00e4nniska ger upphov till cirka 100 watt med muskler, med eld och redskap cirka 500 watt, med husdjur cirka 700 watt, som farao cirka 1 miljon watt i arbetskraft, i ett modernt fossilsamh\u00e4lle cirka 10 000 watt per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Det \u00e4r en omfattande skildring av begreppet Power p\u00e5 360 sidor som avslutas med de f\u00f6r\u00e4ndringar av kraft och makt som kr\u00e4vs f\u00f6r en h\u00e5llbar framtid. Heinberg \u00e4r strukturerad och ger en \u00f6vertygande beskrivning \u00e4ven om den blir ganska omst\u00e4ndig och l\u00e5ngrandig emellan\u00e5t. Jag ger betyg 3 (av 5) f\u00f6r en ambiti\u00f6s analys av de utmaningar som m\u00e4nskligheten st\u00e5r inf\u00f6r. Boken k\u00f6ptes p\u00e5 Bokus vintern 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/75A3AA58-2593-4533-8A87-66D86D78D771-443x590.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/75A3AA58-2593-4533-8A87-66D86D78D771-443x590.jpeg 443w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/75A3AA58-2593-4533-8A87-66D86D78D771-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/75A3AA58-2593-4533-8A87-66D86D78D771-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/75A3AA58-2593-4533-8A87-66D86D78D771-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/75A3AA58-2593-4533-8A87-66D86D78D771-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Heinberg \u00e4r en flitig amerikansk f\u00f6rfattare inom h\u00e5llbarhetstemat med b\u00f6cker som The Party\u00b4s Over, Powerdown, Peak Everything och The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bocker-jag-last","category-klimat-och-miljo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29059,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29057\/revisions\/29059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}