Energy Reality: What We’re For

By FDE and PCI staff, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

October 9, 2013

NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

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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