Just Stop Oil !? Part 2 - Oil is the Economy | Frankly #39
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Maximum Power Principle
Energy is incredibly important in nature. Those organisms that have an energy surplus of their expense versus the income have evolutionary advantages. This is throughout the animal kingdom and it also applies to human systems. The same scaling law applies to the total human system, the global human economy on mass together where all countries grow their energy consumption about to the three-quarter power of their size. There is a 99% correlation between energy and GDP and around 100% correlation between materials and GDP.
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