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Tag Archives: overshoot
Reaching the End of Early Stimulus – What’s Ahead?
Many people thought that COVID-19 would be gone with a short shutdown. They also thought that the world’s economic problems could be cured with a six month “dose” of stimulus. It is increasingly clear that neither of these assumptions is … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged collapse, Covid-19, limits to growth, low oil prices, overshoot
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COVID-19 and the economy: Where do we go from here?
The COVID-19 story keeps developing. At first, everyone listened to epidemiologists telling us that a great deal of social distancing, and even the closing down of economies, would be helpful. After trying these things, we ended up with a huge … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged collapse, low oil prices, oil prices, overshoot, peak oil, renewables
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Understanding Our Pandemic – Economy Predicament
The world’s number one problem today is that the world’s population is too large for its resource base. Some people have called this situation overshoot. The world economy is ripe for a major change, such as the current pandemic, to … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged Covid-19, limits to growth, low oil prices, overshoot, resource limits
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Human population overshoot–what went wrong?
There are seven billion people on earth now. I originally thought that the primary reason for the recent human population explosion was that fossil fuels enabled a larger food supply and better medicine, and thus a higher population. While the … Continue reading
Posted in Planning for the Future
Tagged Craig Dilworth, ecology, overshoot, population, territoriality.
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