Does Energy Policy Matter?
…Understanding the trends and rules may lead humans to devise a more coherent, restricted, and useful set of possible courses than they have done in the past. But the IPCC…
…Understanding the trends and rules may lead humans to devise a more coherent, restricted, and useful set of possible courses than they have done in the past. But the IPCC…
…equivalent of sub-prime mortgages. “ “But humans are not rational. Why do people buy lottery tickets? They hope for a solution, effectively by magic, as lottery jackpot odds are one…
…planet after God, upset by the wickedness and violence of mankind, sent a devastating flood. “Everything on earth will perish,” God said, according to the Bible. ALL CREATURES Noah only…
The PHE studies changes in land use and examines trends, scales, and linkages relating to resource consumption within and across national economies to expose opportunities to improve the quality of…
…accessing and redefinition of resources, keeps happening with humans. One of the greatest technological shifts was the industrial revolution. If we take the “industrial revolution” as one huge innovation, we…
…11% and 15% of personal disposable income (Table 1). Table 1. Travel expenditures, percent of disposable income, various studies. Sources Of Data: Eurostat 40, UK Department of Transport 41, Schafer and Victor 9, Central…
…clippers, like garden shears, to cut the nets of British fishing trawlers, causing the loss of both nets and catches. Iceland broke diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom for a…
…the ways humans travel, too. My premise is that nearly everyone in the global warming debate, from atmospheric scientists and agronomists to energy engineers and politicians, largely neglects to consider,…
…hence acquire responsibilities and opportunities. The excellent networks characteristic of science amplify the responsibilities and opportunities. Science functions globally as a single club, with mathematics and computation as its lingua franca. …
Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…