
Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Innovation and Energy Depends on Energy and Innovation
If energy declines or becomes more expensive, we can offset that by increases in innovation. But a decline in innovation will lead to energy problems in the future because we will not be able to invent our way out of the problem. And that depends on energy without fossil fuels. We'd be back in the days of Charles Darwin.
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