Peter Pogany

Another anxious plea to recognize limits

The current generation will not escape the consequences of rising energy and material resource costs. An appealing but superannuated ideology keeps the public in the dark. More light!

July 8, 2010

Age of petroleum ends in systemic imbroglio

Peak oil and mixed economy don’t mix.

June 7, 2010

Peak oil as central analytic intuition

The Arabian camel has only one hump.

April 30, 2010

Peak oil’s financial connections

As production of the economy’s critical natural resource approaches its zenith, the utility of financial deals moves toward its nadir.

March 29, 2010

Sustainability, lasting recovery, and other myths

For the world economy to be considered sustainable; that is, to reach and maintain a decent level of living for the entire global population for a century or two, the use of renewable resources should not exceed sustainable yields; pollution levels should not surpass the environment’s absorbing/regenerating capacity; the drawdown of nonrenewable resources should decline in proportion with the depletion of stocks; and environmental goals and technical progress helping to achieve them ought to gain universal application.

February 22, 2010

An invitation to think differently

The economy is subordinate to nature and not vice versa.

January 14, 2010

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