{"id":3868,"date":"2015-01-01T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T00:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2015-01-01T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T00:29:41","slug":"keep-your-eyes-on-the-prize-chris-martenson-peak-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3868","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility.<\/p>\n

It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old. And yet it must\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0be so simple because the main narrative of every economy in every corner of the globe rests on the idea of endless, infinite growth.<\/p>\n

Various rationalizations and mental dodges are made in people\u2019s minds to accommodate the principle of endless growth.\u00a0 Some avoid thinking of it all together.\u00a0 Some think that perhaps we will escape into space, and continue our growthful ways on some other yet-to-be named planet(s).\u00a0 Most simply assume that some new wondrous technology will arise that can allow us to avoid pesky limits.<\/p>\n

Whatever the rationalization, none stand up well to simple math and cold logic.<\/p>\n

At the very heart of endless growth lies the matter of energy.\u00a0 To grow forever requires infinite amounts of energy.\u00a0 Growth and energy are linked in a causal way.<\/p>\n

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Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility. It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old. And yet it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[174,263,2327,2328,617],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-crash-course","tag-energy","tag-finite-planet","tag-infinite-growth","tag-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3869,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}