![The Jefferson Exchange show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/053/852/small/jefferson-public-radio-the-jefferson-exchange-podcast.jpg)
Summary: <p>The Jefferson Exchange: February 22, 2013, Hour 2:</p><p><b> <span class="headlinetext">Energy and Endless Growth</span> </b><br><br> Journalist and educator Richard Heinberg never tires of warning people that the concept of perpetual economic growth is unsustainable and ultimately impossible. Heinberg wrote the introduction and contributes a pair of essays to the large-format book <a href="http://www.postcarbon.org/book/1325275-energy-overdevelopment-and-the-delusion-of" target="_blank"><strong>"ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth,"</strong></a> which features work by many big names in the environmental movement. </p>