Tag Archives: limits to growth

Businessweek Gets it Wrong—Everything You Know About Peak Oil is ‘Not’ Wrong

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

On January 26, Bloomberg Businessweek printed an editorial by Charles Kenny titled, “Everything You Know About Peak Oil Is Wrong”. This editorial reflects several common misunderstandings. According to Kenny: Titled Limits to Growth, their report suggested the world was heading … Continue reading →

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‘Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis’ paper available free

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

I was an invited speaker at the “7th Biennial International Workshop ‘Advances in Energy Studies,’” in Barcelona, Spain in October 2010. Afterward, I wrote a peer-reviewed academic paper related to my talk called, “Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial … Continue reading →

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More Reasons Why We are Reaching Limits to Growth

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

In a recent post, I talked about why we may be reaching Limits to Growth of the type foretold in the 1972 book Limits to Growth. I would like to explain some additional reasons now. In my earlier post, I … Continue reading →

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The Faustian Bargain that Modern Economists Never Mention

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

This is a guest post by Dr. Gary Peters. He is a retired geography professor. Historically people have shifted their belief systems in various ways. The Greeks and Romans believed in numerous gods and goddesses and attributed all kinds of … Continue reading →

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2012: Reaching “Limits to Growth”?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

It looks to me as though 2012 is likely to be a truly awful financial year, with several crises converging: Either very high oil prices or recession, The US governmental debt limit crisis, The Euro crisis, The Chinese debt problem, … Continue reading →

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Oil Limits, Recession, and Bumping Against the Growth Ceiling

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

The issues we are confronted with today seem to be a subset of the issues foretold in the book Limits to Growth back in 1972. At some point, the economy cannot continue to grow as rapidly as it did in the past. … Continue reading →

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