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Our energy hunger is tethered to our economic past – Mirage News
Just as a living organism continually needs food to maintain itself, an economy consumes energy to do work and keep things going. That consumption comes…
Just as a living organism continually needs food to maintain itself, an economy consumes energy to do work and keep things going. That consumption comes with the cost of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, though. So, how can we use energy to keep the economy alive without burning out the planet in the process?
In a paper in PLOS ONE, University of Utah professor of atmospheric sciences Tim Garrett, with mathematician Matheus Grasselli of McMaster University and economist Stephen Keen …
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