Our Global Ponzi Scheme

By Lester Brown, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

June 26, 2013

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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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