"The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," by Thom Hartmann
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Hours-Ancient-Sunlight-Revised/dp/1400051576/...

http://graphoilogy.blogspot.com/2007/04/elp-plan-economize-localize-prod...

Author Thom Hartmann, in his book, “The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight,” described a high tech company that he consulted for that went through several rounds of start up financing, and then collapsed, without ever delivering a real product. At the peak of their activity, that had several employees and lavish office space--until they ran out of capital. His point was that this company was analogous to a large portion of the US economy, which has the appearance of considerable activity and uses vast amounts of energy, but how much of this economic activity delivers essential goods and services?

Reading Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Overshoot (Catton) and Ishmael (Quinn), caused me to shut down my hedge fund and start learning about these topics full time.

And Orwell was right in 1984 - Ignorance is Bliss....