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- Drilling Down: Tainter and Patzek tell the energy-complexity story Fri, 7 Oct 11, 7:50pmJoseph Tainter and Tadeusz Patzek are authors of a soon-to-be-released book called Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma. This book is part of Charles Hall's Briefs in Energy series with the publisher...
- Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial Fri, 1 Jul 11, 7:59amBy WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary...
- Joseph Tainter's 2009 Speech - Human Resource Use: Timing and Implications for Sustainability Sun, 12 Sep 10, 8:28amJoseph Tainter, a Professor in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University, and author of the seminal work "The Collapse of Complex Societies", gave a speech about a year ago on complexity and resource...
- Things Fall Apart: Complexity, Supply Chains, Infrastructure & Collapse Revisited Fri, 27 Aug 10, 12:45amThis is a presentation by Dr. David Korowicz from Feasta, given at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. It can be downloaded here: Things fall apart: Some thoughts on complexity, supply chains, infrastructure...
- The Dynamics of Complex Civilisations - Excerpt from "Tipping Point: Near-Term Systemic Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production" Tue, 30 Mar 10, 1:48pmRecently, a 55 page paper called Tipping Point: Near-Term Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production (PDF warning) was published as the joint effort of two organizations: Feasta and The Risk/Resilience Network, with...
- Reducing complexity Thu, 31 Dec 09, 10:49amJoseph Tainter tells us that increasing complexity confers advantages to a society, but eventually, the energy required to maintain the increasingly complex society becomes a problem...
- Things Fall Apart: Complexity, Supply Chains, Infrastructure & Collapse Tue, 4 Aug 09, 1:48pmThis is a presentation by Dr. David Korowicz from Feasta, given at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. It can be downloaded here: Things fall apart: Some thoughts on complexity, supply chains, infrastructure...
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