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Introducing ‘Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet’

March 19, 2021 by Tom Murphy

The first thing is to announce the launch of a textbook at eScholarship ‘Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Assessing and Adapting to Planetary Limits’ that is free to access electronically

Categories Energy, Energy featured, Environment Tags energy limits Leave a comment

Climate change: can the Seneca effect save us?

December 15, 2020April 22, 2015 by Ugo Bardi

A Seneca shaped production curve would considerably reduce the amount of fossil carbon that can be burned in the future.

Categories Energy Tags climate change, collapse, energy limits, Hubbert Curve, peak oil, Resource Depletion, Seneca cliff Leave a comment

The Great Burning

December 15, 2020April 17, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

What will we do when the Great Burning comes to an end?

Categories Energy Tags energy limits, energy transition, Fossil Fuels Leave a comment

Feed Yourself

December 15, 2020April 9, 2015 by Alex Smith

Oil guru Richard Heinberg on life after fossil fuels. Marjory Wildcraft: why you may want to grow your own groceries.

Categories Energy Tags energy limits, limits to growth, local food production Leave a comment

Changing Human Circumstances

December 15, 2020April 9, 2015 by Colin J. Campbell

The evidence suggests that we are facing the dawn of the Second Half of the Oil Age when oil and gas production decline.

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The Law of Diminishing Returns

December 15, 2020April 8, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

Is modern society hitting our defining moment, the point of diminishing returns?

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Announcing AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

December 15, 2020March 27, 2015 by Richard Heinberg

Afterburn is a book of “greatest hits”, similar in that respect to an earlier book of mine, Peak Everything.

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Humans and Earth: Transitioning from Teenagers to Adults as a Species

December 15, 2020May 19, 2014 by Nate Hagens

I have concluded that facts are necessary but insufficient to change peoples behavior…

Categories Environment Tags Culture & Behavior, ecological constraints, energy limits Leave a comment

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