How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman
Count on Steve to have a 50-year-old reference to things.
You know, back when things were better…
But really, I’m impressed with your memory of trivia.
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The book Limits to Growth had come out the year before and the 1973 oil embargo started the month before that Newsweek article. Civilization was doomed…
DB2
The answer to my questions seems to be no. I was listening to a Slate Money Bonus podcast today where the author was interviewed. It sounded like a book some here may have read. It is on my TBR list now. Here is the Goodreads teaser summary of it.
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The media nattered on about it constantly. I remember going in to an auto parts store that fall to buy some antifreeze for my car. They were sold out. Could not get any.
Steve
Growth cannot go on forever. Eventually you run out of resources. But materials can be recovered and recycled as long as you have energy to make it happen.
We have so many undeveloped energy sources, energy shortage is unlikely as long as the sun shines.