Just Stop Oil !? Part 2 - Oil is the Economy | Frankly #39
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Jevons Paradox: How Electric Vehicles Can Help the Future
Since 1990, we've increased energy efficiency by 36% and yet globally we've increased our consumption by 63%. Electric cars are cleaner. They use less energy but system-wide they are not a response to either climate or energy depletion. Peak oil historically actually has never been about running out of oil. It's about the phase shift in human economies that happen once we start to lose those additional fossil workers added to the human system instead of the last 100 years where they've been increasing every year.
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