John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri
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Dwindling energy resources will put the economy at risk
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics of the University of Missouri at Columbia John Ikerd argues that humans cannot wait much longer to address the reality that economic growth is unsustainable—because the world is running out of energy resources. “We simply can’t continue to grow at the rate we’ve been growing in the past.”
April 6, 2011




















