The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment (45 page)

End states, of open and closed systems

Energetic decisions, economic decisions versus

Energy.
See also
Alternative energy sources; Net energy; Work

assessing trends in

from coal

coming agricultural crisis and

coming crisis in

consumed in making fertilizers

crop production and

decline in flows of

diffuse versus concentrated

economic growth and

economic growth due to surplus

economy and

in end of growth

exponential growth and

for farming

foreseeing need for

forms of

future food supplies and

future of

future opportunities in

future world and

Great Credit Bubble and

law of conservation of

making do with less

as master resource

needed to mine minerals

in open and closed systems

quality of

quantity of

removed from inflation statistics

societal need for

stopping waste of

in transitioning from wood and coal to oil

in transitioning from oil to alternative energy sources

water and

in wealth creation

work from

world economy and

Energy budgeting

Energy consumption, U.S. GDP and

Energy creation, technology and

Energy density, required to do work

Energy depletion, as predicament

Energy efficiency

desirability of

in future

Energy exploration, energy required for

Energy Information Agency (EIA), U.S. coal consumption projections by

Energy production

energy required for

water in

Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI)

in future

for natural gas

Energy sources

in foreseeable world economy

in three future scenarios

Energy transformation

technology and

Energy transitions, technology and

Energy use

by China

by source

exponential growth of

measuring

England

debt following Napoleonic Wars

historical debt crisis in

oil imports by

on oil production decline

peak oil production in

in South Sea Bubble

Entitlement liabilities, in foreseeable world economy

Entitlement programs

underfunding of

of United States

Entitlements

economic growth and

future of

in United States

Entropy

Environment

assessing trends in

coming crisis in

exponential growth and

foreseeing fate of

Great Credit Bubble and

in three future scenarios

Environmental use, exponential growth of

Equilibrium, in open and closed systems

Erosion, of soil

Ethanol

oil versus

in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

Europe

biofuel use in

inflation and deflation cycles in

in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

preparing for the future and

savings rate in

in Slow Tumble scenario

well maintained infrastructure in

European banks, quantitative easing among

Eurozone countries, money printing in

Exploration, quality and quantity of energy via

Exponential decline, in oil production

Exponential growth

concept of

end of

of energy to extract minerals

of future debt

in Great Credit Bubble

“hockey stick” pattern in

linearity versus

money creation and

oil shortages and

our world and

“Peak Oil” and

pension underfunding and

perpetual

real examples of

rule of 70 in

“speeding up” during

in three future scenarios

in total credit market debt

turning the corner in

unsustainability of

water depletion and

of world economy

Exporting

of nutrients

of water via food

Export Land Model

Exports, economic growth and

External defaults

Extinction rates, increases in

Extraction profile, for oil extraction

Face value, of Treasury bonds

False narratives, in economics

Family

in preparing for the future

in relocating for the future

Farm Bureau, inflation statistics reported by

Farmers

complex societies and

future food supplies and

local

Farming

future food supplies and

improving practices in

water depletion and

Farmland

in relocating for the future

required to sustain population growth

tract housing versus

Fast breeder reactors, as nuclear fuel

Federal Funds Rate

Federal prison system, “money” in

Federal Reserve (“the Fed”)

base money and

bubbles and

in debt-based money system

economic growth and

housing bubble and

inflation as controlled by

interest rates set by

money creation by

money management by

in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

quantitative easing by

on United States liabilities

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

money and

Federal Reserve notes

Feedback loops, in economy

Fertilizers

in coming agricultural crisis

energy costs of

improvements in

Fiat currencies/money

future of

in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

world economy and