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Types of Economic Bubbles
Resource Depletion as Cause of Societal Collapse
Natural Resource Overuse as Economic Bubble
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how technological progress can speed up collapse
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Ugo Bardi
Resource Crisis
2014-12-17
ten economic contraction trends (as tree)
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(1) exponential growth came from one-time fossil fuels
(2) growth rate of GDP and oil peaked decades ago
(3) US crude peaked in 1971, world in 2005
(4) the remaining oil is more expensive
(5) oil and gas fracking is a speculative bubble
(7) wind, solar, and geo are still just 1% of energy
(8) key minerals are becoming rarer and costlier
(9) the US is most vulnerable to peak oil
(10) unemployment increases with peak resources
resource overuse as Ponzi scheme
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Lester Brown
2009-10-07