The Impact of Higher Energy Prices on Mechanization .................................219
Technology OR Energy vs. Technology AND Energy?.....................................222
Efficiency and Affordability? The Rebound Effect ..........................................224
Energy, Technology and Complexity ...............................................................227
The Energy Cost of Getting Energy..................................................................229
Energetic Remoteness – “To be Ore, or Not to be” ........................................232
Water ................................................................................................................235
Energy Part 7 - Energy, Growth and Population......................................238
A Malthusian Perspective ................................................................................238
Modern Human Population.............................................................................241
The “Pie” and the “Slice” – GDP/per capita....................................................245
The Slice of Pie per Human – and the Whole Pie............................................247
The Modern “Exosomatic” Pyramid ................................................................250
Energy Privilege................................................................................................252
Inequality ..........................................................................................................254
Poverty: Wide Boundary Style.........................................................................257
Energy Part 8 - The Carbon Pulse .........................................................260
The Carbon Pulse..............................................................................................260
Oil: You Gotta Find It Before You Can Burn It .................................................263
Depletion...........................................................................................................265
The Red Queen Phenomenon ..........................................................................268
The Fracking Truth............................................................................................271
A Crude Substitute............................................................................................273
Price vs Cost (vs Value).....................................................................................276
What if Oil cost $400 per Barrel? ....................................................................278
Draining America First......................................................................................281
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