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Cellular systems, ecosystems, and civilizations are, at base, thermodynamic systems.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
America does not have to rely on vast volumes of oil and natural gas to make food.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
Fixed energy limits have not limited the progress of nature.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
A society that supports a wealthy few at the expense of the larger population is unlikely to persist.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
It is too late to slow this runaway train down before it tumbles into the chasm.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
You can feed a family on a quarter-acre lot if it comes down to it.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
I encourage people to look into the Transition Network.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
We are at the peak of a remarkable two-hundred-year glitch in the history of civilization and are about to embark on the descent. The coming changes will be earth-shattering.
Life Without Oil (2011)
Decentralization will prevent shocks from spreading throughout the system, like firebreaks in the forest.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
We should stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industries and instead provide subsidies for local and community energy projects.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
Our government has been hijacked by big business.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
Human systems always bring about their own demise... Natural systems... do not destroy themselves.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
What farmers should aim for is... higher margins using fewer inputs on less land, and a system that is sustainable.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
Nothing can sustain a system that is in overshoot... Resiliance... is not the strength to hold back the tide, but the strength to bend without breading as the tide inevitably rushes in.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
To combat the problems we face, we need to swim against the tide, and not only the main tide of environmentally blind industrialists, but also the secondary current of efficiency-blind environmentalists.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)
...the environment is master. Societies and economies are utterly dependent upon it.
The Efficiency Trap (2013)