The Burden of Knowledge
" A Eulogy for Richard Heinberg " Even people who don’t talk about climate change know that their lives are getting worse, in many cases, not better. They know that their friends’ and family’s lives are getting worse, not better, in various ways. It might be loneliness; it might be health; it might be just generalized anxiety. So they look for stories to explain it. And then you’ve got all these opportunists coming along to say, blame the immigrants or blame Trump or blame whoever. It’s a blame game, you know; it’s just whoever wants to come along and say, blame them, blame that. And people are really attaching themselves to stories of blame if it helps them feel self-righteous. Because there’s this wish to somehow be better than the mess and think that the mess can be defeated, and that’s natural, and it’s completely wrong and counterproductive. – Jem Bendell, MEER interview, September 1, 2026 Richard Heinberg passed on July 19. His Wikipedia entry calls him an American ...
