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Olduvai Theory: Toward Re-Equalizing the World Standard of Living - Richard Duncan

Posted on July 03, 2009

This is a guest posting of Richard Duncan's latest Olduvai update, which is also featured in the Summer 2009 issue of The Social Contract Quarterly www.thesocialcontract.com. The essay explores energy use and population and as with previous updates arrives at some rather grim conclusions.I'd add that the paper Richard Duncan wrote with Walter Youngquist in 1999 (when oil prices were in $10-$15 range and stock markets were at all time highs) predicting a 2007 world oil peak was not only prescient and ahead of its time using oil forecasting heuristics, but was part of the core readings from 2...

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