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17. Yea, but those 7 billion individual

Thu Jun 27, 2013, 02:50 PM

Jun 2013

heat-seeking, entropy-surfing, sugar-snacking individuals are still bound by cultural limits and narratives. Even the nuttiest RWer knows that something is very wrong but their narrative is just fucked. Or maybe I'm just bound by my cultural narrative that says discussing cultural narratives is relevant.

Most days the situation makes me think of a troop of baboons with a bucket of hand-grenades. They're just never going to figure it out. Never.

In the mean time I think I'll find something to do as well, something mildly useful and amusing, but have no idea what it will be. Ooops, I'm about to salvage or loose forever about 100GB of some poor bastards data. I'd better pay attention. Cheers.

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Global Energy, GWP and Population Growth: what happened in 1972? [View all] GliderGuider Jun 2013 OP

The Oil Shock Demeter Jun 2013 #1

So that was the U S of A. What about the rest of the world? GliderGuider Jun 2013 #2

China instituted the One-Child Policy, and enforced it Demeter Jun 2013 #5

I'm not convinced, but I'll keep looking. GliderGuider Jun 2013 #6

Beats me. Iterate Jun 2013 #3

Hah! I knew it had to be Paul Ehrlich's fault! GliderGuider Jun 2013 #4

Ok, time to get serious Iterate Jun 2013 #7

Nice analysis. Thanks. GliderGuider Jun 2013 #8

My first thought was post war rebuilding also. kristopher Jun 2013 #9

Here's a look at a longer time series GliderGuider Jun 2013 #10

Try loading this. See if we're seeing the same thing. Iterate Jun 2013 #11

Here's what I see GliderGuider Jun 2013 #12

Interesting. Way interesting. Iterate Jun 2013 #13

Overall world energy use per capita stabilized in 1975 GliderGuider Jun 2013 #14

I remember Garrett Iterate Jun 2013 #15

I had similar questions about Garrett's 9.7mw number, so I wrote him. GliderGuider Jun 2013 #16

Yea, but those 7 billion individual Iterate Jun 2013 #17