The crash course an honest approach to facing the future of our economy, energy, and environment

"Energy crises. Financial market chaos. War. Climate instability. Crop failures and food shortages. Supply chain disruptions. Covid. These hot topics are an overwhelming soup of problems and predicaments. There are more to come. How do we make sense of them and what can we do to become more res...

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Main Author: Martenson, Chris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2023
Edition:Revised edition
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505 0 |a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) -- And All the Rest -- Chapter 15 Crumbling Before Our Eyes -- The Story of . . . Concrete? -- Summing It Up -- Part IV Energy -- Chapter 16 Energy and the Economy -- The Master Resource -- Energy Budgeting -- Net Energy -- The Economy and Energy -- We Live Like Gods -- Chapter 17 Peak Oil -- Petro-Realities -- Bombshell! Saudi Arabia Fesses Up to Peak Oil -- It's Not "Running Out" -- Find First, Then Pump -- A Global Peak? -- Oil and GDP -- The Oil Production Output Gap -- Peak Exports -- The Ugly Power of Reverse Compounding -- Chapter 18 Shale Oil 
505 0 |a Shale Oil-Amazing Technology, but Expensive Oil -- Shale Oil-Game Changer or Retirement Party? -- Fledged on a Cliff -- International Shale -- Chapter 19 Necessary but Insufficient -- Simple Math -- The European Energy Disaster of 2022 -- The Reality-Time, Scale, Cost, Limits -- The Nuclear Option -- The Coal Story -- The Alternatives-Solar and Wind -- Biofuels -- Natural Gas -- Hydrogen -- Conclusion -- Chapter 20 Why Technology Can't Fix This -- Fact 1: Technology Does Not Create Energy -- Fact 2: Transforming Energy Is Expensive -- Fact 3: Energy Transitions Take Time 
505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I How to Approach the Next Twenty Years -- Chapter 1 The Coming Storm -- Chapter 2 The Lens -- Chapter 3 A World Worth Inheriting -- Chapter 4 Trust Yourself -- Conflicts of Interest -- You Are the Ultimate Truth-Teller -- Instincts Can Save You -- Head and Heart -- Part II Foundation -- Chapter 5 Dangerous Exponentials -- More on the Concept of Exponential Growth -- Speeding Up -- Making It Real -- Surrounded by Exponentials -- The Rule of 70 -- Your Exponential World 
505 0 |a What Is Debt? -- Levels of Debt -- Debt Distorts GDP -- Good Debt and Bad Debt -- The Crisis Explained in One Table -- The History of Debt -- This Time Is Different -- Too Much Debt -- Debt's Massive Assumption -- How It Unfolds -- Chapter 12 The Great Credit Bubble -- What Is a Bubble? -- Bubble History -- Bubble Characteristics -- A Bubble 50 Years in the Making -- Withering Heights -- Chapter 13 Like a Moth to Flame -- The Moths -- The Flame -- Quantitative Easing -- The Central Bank's Reign of Error -- Chapter 14 Fuzzy Numbers -- Administrative Bias -- Inflation 
505 0 |a Chapter 6 Problems versus Predicaments -- Chapter 7 An Inconvenient Lie -- Chapter 8 Complex Systems -- Systems-Open versus Closed -- Economists-Closed Minds -- Our Complex World -- Chapter 9 Our Money System -- Full Faith and Credit -- How Hyperinflation Happens -- Money Creation -- A Quick Anecdote on People's Understanding of Money -- Back to Our Story -- The Fed -- Two Kinds of Money-One Exponential System -- The Trouble with Future Claims on Wealth -- Chapter 10 What Is Wealth? -- The Hierarchy of Wealth -- Money and Wealth -- The Nature of Wealth -- Part III Economy -- Chapter 11 Debt 
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