Peak Oil & the End of Growth
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Energy Depletion - What Is the Great Simplification?
"We neglect the fundamental role of energy in providing our wealth and productivity," he says. "For the longest time, we were hunter-gatherers and we would work 20 hours a week and get enough calories to sustain us." He argues that once humans became sedentary, more agricultural, intensive ways of life, they started to generate surplus.
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