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I came across this chapter by M. King Hubbert on "Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History" written in 1976. It lays out clearly how non-renewable resources will run out and human society will go back to a steady state situation. The question is whether it will crash first or level off by transitioning to renewable energy.
The only quibble I have with the article is they he mentions money as something that can grow exponentially for ever. Money can decouple temporarily from the physical world, but for it to be useful there needs to be some coupling. So monetary and economic growth will also end.
https://www.uvm.edu/~jfarley/EEseminar/readings/Hubbert-growth.pdf
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I came across this chapter by M. King Hubbert on "Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History" written in 1976. It lays out clearly how non-renewable resources will run out and human society will go back to a steady state situation. The question is whether it will crash first or level off by transitioning to renewable energy.
The only quibble I have with the article is they he mentions money as something that can grow exponentially for ever. Money can decouple temporarily from the physical world, but for it to be useful there needs to be some coupling. So monetary and economic growth will also end.
https://www.uvm.edu/~jfarley/EEseminar/readings/Hubbert-growth.pdf
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I came across this chapter by M. King Hubbert on "Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History" written in 1976. It lays out clearly how non-renewable resources will run out and human society will go back to a steady state situation. The question is whether it will crash first or level off by transitioning to renewable energy.
The only quibble I have with the article is they he mentions money as something that can grow exponentially for ever. Money can decouple temporarily from the physical world, but for it to be useful there needs to be some coupling. So monetary and economic growth will also end.
https://www.uvm.edu/~jfarley/EEseminar/readings/Hubbert-growth.pdf
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I came across this chapter by M. King Hubbert on "Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History" written in 1976. It lays out clearly how non-renewable resources will run out and human society will go back to a steady state situation. The question is whether it will crash first or level off by transitioning to renewable energy.
The only quibble I have with the article is they he mentions money as something that can grow exponentially for ever. Money can decouple temporarily from the physical world, but for it to be useful there needs to be some coupling. So monetary and economic growth will also end.
https://www.uvm.edu/~jfarley/EEseminar/readings/Hubbert-growth.pdf
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I came across this chapter by M. King Hubbert on "Exponential Growth as a Transient Phenomenon in Human History" written in 1976. It lays out clearly how non-renewable resources will run out and human society will go back to a steady state situation. The question is whether it will crash first or level off by transitioning to renewable energy.
The only quibble I have with the article is they he mentions money as something that can grow exponentially for ever. Money can decouple temporarily from the physical world, but for it to be useful there needs to be some coupling. So monetary and economic growth will also end.
https://www.uvm.edu/~jfarley/EEseminar/readings/Hubbert-growth.pdf
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@BuckRogers1965 @jaykuo Counterpoint: #StatuesOfLimitations #FiniteResources #ProsecutorialDiscretion #Unfettered #PardonAuthority ; #Trump has even attempted to pardon a Colorado election official, convicted on state charges, who allowed illegal access to voting machines to his partisans — contrary to most characterizations of his pardon authority. He has not acknowledged to my knowledge that he may not #pardon himself, so I expect him to attempt to do so rather than the Nixon-Ford shuffle of the previous most disgraceful US President.
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Yes, you can scale anything indefinitely with finite resources. Until you can’t. Because you’re dead. Because everyone is dead.
#capitalism #SiliconValley #cultOfGrowth #ai #blockchain #fossilFuels #climateChange #habitatDestruction #exponentialGrowth #finiteResources #extinction