Stories tagged with "habituation"

Are There Demand Limits to Growth?

Posted by Nate Hagens on April 19, 2009 - 10:19am in The Oil Drum: Campfire
Topic: Sociology/Psychology
Tags: addiction, consumption, habituation, original, steep discount rates [list all tags]

On this site we typically discuss the extent and timing of our energy supply limits, (as well as planetary sink capacities and non-energy input limits). Less common are discussions on our ends, and whether our current trajectory is mentally/physically sustainable irrespective of source/sink constraints on the horizon. Tonight's Campfire questions will relate to demand limits to growth in the hypothetical situation of unlimited resources. Perhaps from a perspective of infinite abundance we might gain insight on how best to address resource shortages.


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How $30,000 Can be More Than $300,000

Posted by Nate Hagens on March 7, 2009 - 5:25pm in The Oil Drum: Campfire
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: campfire, conspicuous consumption, habituation, original, ratchet effect, veblen goods [list all tags]

In interviews, speeches and in writing on this blog, I often point out that financial capital is just a marker for real capital, which is comprised of natural, built, social and human components. In the context of upcoming social upheaval given numerous converging crises, this post is a brief discussion piece on how those making little or no money may actually have a leg up on those who are employed/making alot of money.





The Monkey Trap - All the monkey has to do is let go, to get free

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Supply and Demand on a Full Planet - ASPO VI Speech by Nate Hagens

Posted by Prof. Goose on August 26, 2008 - 10:30am
Topic: Sociology/Psychology
Tags: addiction, cognitive neuroscience, demand, ecological economics, energy properties, habituation, nate hagens, original, relative fitness [list all tags]

Next month is the ASPO conference in Sacramento CA. Nate Hagens will be one of the speakers in the plenary (as well as on the Sunday TOD breakout panels). Here is a video of the talk he gave last year at the international ASPO VI venue in Cork Ireland. The speech covered net energy, energy properties and externalities on the supply side and addiction, relative fitness and steep discount rates from an evolutionary perspective on the demand side. Here is a link to the slides themselves, (which aren't fully shown at times on the video).
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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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