The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment (50 page)

Organizations, author’s presentations to

Outcomes, of predicaments

Overconsumption, in United States

Overexuberance, bubbles versus

Overfishing

Overnight money

interest rates for

Overstated GDP, understated inflation versus

Owner’s equivalent rent, in GDP calculation

Oxygen (O), in air

Palm oil plantations, adverse ecological effects of

Panics, economic growth and

Paper-based wealth

money as

Paper currencies/money

mismanagement of

in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

in preparing for the future

settling debts by printing

Paper wealth, future of

Parliament

of England

on oil production decline

Partial defaults

inflation as

Patzek
et al.
study

Paying off debt, economic consequences of

“Peak Coal,” alternative fuels and

“Peak Oil”

alternative fuels and

arrival of

coal and

in coming economic crisis

compounding and

described

existing oil field decline and

finding and pumping oil and

in foreseeable world economy

GDP growth and global

investment and

natural gas and

nuclear power and

oil demand and

oil extraction and

oil production and

oil production output gap and

peak exports and

quality and quantity of energy and

running out of oil and

transitioning from oil to alternative energy sources and

Peak Oil Recognition scenario, economic future in

Peat bogs, palm oil plantations on

Pension funds

fixing shortfalls in

future growth and

as savings

in Slow Tumble scenario

underfunding of

Pension liabilities, in foreseeable world economy

Pension payments, mandatory

Pension plans, as liabilities

People, bubbles and

Percentage rate of growth

“Perfect interest flows” theory

Perpetual exponential growth

as banking requirement

Perpetual-motion machines

Personal fulfillment

Personal savings rate, historic lows and decline in current

Pesticides, agriculture without

Petroleum.
See also
Oil entries; “Peak Oil”

as ancient sunlight

in electric power production

energy resources to replace

future food supplies and

in foreseeable world economy

as master resource

societal importance of

in three future scenarios

U.S. debt defaults and price of

wealth and

world economy and

Phillips, Kevin

Phosphate, depletion of

Phosphorus (P), as key nutrient in fertilizers

Photosynthetic oceanic organisms, as oxygen source

Phytoplankton

decline in

depletion of

as oxygen source

PIETI (principal, interest, energy, taxes, insurance) payments, in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

PITI (principal, interest, taxes, insurance) payments, in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

Plan B
series

Planck, Max

Plankton

in food pyramid

as oxygen source

Plants

desertification and

fertilizers required by

in food pyramid

nutrient depletion from

Plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles, in transitioning from oil to alternatives

Plutarch, on rich versus poor

Plutonium (Pu), as nuclear fuel

Political limitations, on adopting existing technologies

Political unrest, future

Political upheaval, bursting bubbles in

Political will, future world and

Politics

in debasement of economic statistics

economic growth and

in end of growth

future opportunities in

future world and

investment and

long-term prosperity and

in Slow Tumble scenario

in untruthful inflation reporting

Ponzi schemes, U.S. entitlement programs as

Population

economic growth and

future of

in three future scenarios

Population density, in relocating for the future

Population growth

depletion of oceanic fish and

exponential

limitations on

recent

“speeding up” in

water depletion and

Potash, recovery of

Potassium (K), as key nutrient in fertilizers

Poverty line, economic growth and

Power, energy and

Predicaments, problems versus.
See also
Current economic predicament

Predictability

of sand pile behavior

of world economy

Price changes, in GDP calculation

Primary resources, constant economic growth and

Primary wealth

in end of growth

future opportunities in accumulating

minerals as

money and

soil as

Principal, future debt and

Printing money.
See
Money printing

Priorities, of the future

Prison system, “money” in

Problems, predicaments versus

Problem solving

Productive assets, in preparing for the future

Professionals

in problem solving

trusting

Profitability, of author’s web site

Profitmaking, investment and

Profligacy, frugality versus

Prosperity.
See also
Wealth entries

in end of growth

energy transitions and

foreseeing

future

future world and

growth versus

surplus and

surplus energy for

Prudence

bubbles and

failure to use

Psychology, of debt accumulation

Public employee unions, pension underfunding and

Public transportation, in relocating for the future

Quality

of energy

of mineral resources

Quality improvements, inflation statistics manipulations related to

Quality of life

Quantitative easing (QE)

in Peak Oil Recognition scenario

Quantity

of energy

of mineral resources