||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The Risks and Rewards of More and More . . .|By blue ocotillo|Simply put, this is a book a deep significance. I came across it shortly after it came out, as I was doing research for my own book, "Just a Little Bit More" (Blue Ocotillo/ACTA, 2014), that deals with excess and over-consumption. Scholars Joseph Tainter (anthropologist, Utah State University) and Tad Patzek (engine|||From the reviews:“Tainter and Patzek use the story of Gulf oil spill as the background for discussing the energy-complexity spiral, and its relationship to this accident. … Drilling Down touches on many interesting topics, from details about how
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront problems that seem to ...
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