‘Hard Ceilings’ Doomed Past Societies
There were firm ceilings on the amount of energy that humans’ first two energy sources, foraging and farming, could provide. We do not know  —  yet  —  if there is also a hard ceiling over what is possible in fossil fuel societies, but the implication of history seems to be that there is.

July 27, 2015 at 07:28PM
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