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Peak Oil

robertpaulsen

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1. Thanks Javaman. I particularly liked the Heinberg piece.

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 07:47 PM

Dec 2011

One of the real "inconvenient truths" besides the historical correlation between carbon dioxide and global warming is the economic correlation between GDP growth and the emission of greenhouse gasses. This is a truism throughout the history of industrial civilization regardless of whether the economy in question was capitalist or communist. The problem, which Heinberg recognizes, is that under both systems money is predicated on infinite growth. Unless you change the way money works, you change nothing.

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Drumbeat from this weekend and today. [View all] Javaman Dec 2011 OP

Thanks Javaman. I particularly liked the Heinberg piece. robertpaulsen Dec 2011 #1

I think that confuses correlation with causation FBaggins Dec 2011 #2