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Unfortunately our explosive growth in numbers over the last 150 years has pinned us between a rock and a hard place. Given the choice between global warming, and a much sooner complete collapse of world society due to a reduction in energy availability, no government or general populace is going to choose collapse. You are reading one of the many books that explains the relationship between energy availability (and the obvious inability of rebuildables to replace fossil fuels at anywhere this scale), economy, and population.
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If energy availability goes down, one or both of the others must go down.
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