(TED Talk) Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy

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20. So long as he continues to deny the fundamental reality of the situation

He will continue to be faced with inconvenient skeptics and their recurrent questions.

Speaking of semantic loading, I note with amusement the following in the above excerpt:

"Owen's counterfactual 2010 New Yorker article on energy "rebound" was demolished at the time"
"this old canard"
"a theoretical nicety of little practical consequence"
"Blaming wealth effects on energy efficiency has no basis in fact or logic."

The article you cite at http://blog.rmi.org/blog_Jevons_Paradox was in fact what prompted me to say that Lovins doesn't have clue one about rebound.

Lovins' position is to be expected, of course. If he were to admit any credence to it, either "in fact or logic", it would undermine his whole raison d'etre.

As Mark Twain said, "You tell me where a man gets his corn pone, and I'll tell you what his opinions are." Lovins gets his corn pone from energy efficiency. 'Nuff said.