Item of General Interest
June 17. Doomstead Diner now has both my talk "Collapse 101" and my talk "Energy, Debt, and the Age of Limits" up as podcasts. Both are from the Age of Limits Conference. This is a link to the Doomstead Diner podcast area.
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Why Malthus Got His Forecast Wrong
Most of us have heard that Thomas Malthus made a forecast in 1798 that the world would run short of food. He expected that this would happen because in a world with limited agricultural land, food supply would fail to rise … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications, Food issues
Tagged coal, energy consumption, food supply, Malthus, oil, oil price, peak oil, technology
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