{"id":7169,"date":"2015-04-09T06:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2015-04-09T06:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:40:30","slug":"the-law-of-diminishing-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7169","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Diminishing Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/the-law-of-diminishing-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Law of Diminishing Returns<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part one of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with\u00a0<em>Afterburn<\/em>:<em>\u00a0Society Beyond Fossil Fuels.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is modern society hitting our\u00a0defining moment,\u00a0the point of diminishing returns?<\/p>\n<p>In this brand new short video\u00a0released today, Richard Heinberg explores how \u2014 in our economy, the environment, and energy production \u2014 we may well be. When previous societies have hit similar limits, they often doubled-down by attempting ever more complex interventions to keep things going, before finally collapsing. Will this be our fate too? And is\u00a0there an\u00a0alternative?<\/p>\n<p>This video is the first in a four-part series by Richard Heinberg and Post Carbon Institute. The themes covered in these videos are much more thoroughly explored in Heinberg\u2019s latest book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/announcing-afterburn-society-beyond-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to view the video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law of Diminishing Returns Part one of a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with\u00a0Afterburn:\u00a0Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Is modern society hitting our\u00a0defining moment,\u00a0the point of diminishing returns? In this brand new short video\u00a0released today, Richard Heinberg explores how \u2014 in our economy, the environment, and energy production \u2014 we may well be. When [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,3,4],"tags":[150,328,4690,639,1081],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-collapse","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-law-of-diminishing-returns","tag-post-carbon-institute","tag-richard-heinberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","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=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7170,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}