Limits To Growth?

We have to change the basis of our society, from one which is ultimately reliant on hydrocarbons (what happens to all those cars, all that shipping and transportation, the lineaments of our society, without it) to one that doesn’t dump carbon faster into the environment that the earth can clean it up. And we need to turn energy into capital — something you can build, something whose limits to growth aren’t based on how many dinosaurs died in just the right time and way into something that is much less finite.

Any new system will have its own “limits to growth”, but those limits can be quite far out. We got a lot of time and a lot of prosperity out of the petroleum based system — almost a century. Hopefully our next system will be one which will give us at least as much time, and one which allow many more human beings into the system in a way that is dignified and reasonably prosperous.

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