Energy in Australia: Peak oil, solar power and Asia's economic growth

[caraher]

1. The economists are mostly paid not to get it

And even when they have some genuine intellectual freedom, they tend not to see beyond their own disciplinary indoctrination.

It's amazing how many of them I've spoken to who consider the malleable constructs of economics as somehow less negotiable than the laws of physical science. Their notion of "risk" is tied more to upsetting the economic systems we have than disrupting the conditions that make life possible.