Stories tagged with "exponential growth"

Is Sustainable Development sustainable?

Posted by Luis de Sousa on July 11, 2009 - 10:20am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Sociology/Psychology
Tags: development, exponential growth, original, sustainability, sustainable development [list all tags]

The other day I got an e-mail from someone with The Economist asking me to participate in an on-line forum/discussion on that science fiction figure called Sustainable Development. Someone at this popular economics publication followed the series on the European Elections that was published here and at the European Tribune.

This time, instead of graphs and analysis, I opted for something a bit different.

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I am Human, I'm American, and I'm Addicted to Oil...

Posted by Nate Hagens on February 4, 2008 - 9:55am
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: addiction, consumption, demand, dopamine, evolution, exponential growth, habituation, ipat, learning [list all tags]

ARE WE ADDICTED TO OIL?






An advertisement for BMW cars -and freedom, and power, and sex, and status.... (Click to enlarge)

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