December 21, 2011
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From the Post Carbon Institute comes a quick video of the history of fossil fuels and the growth of the modern economy over the last 300 years:
You might also be interested in this recent post: “Energy source transitions over time – what comes next?”
Bonus points for using A Tribe Called Quest.
Via Adam Frank at NPR‘s excellent 13.7 blog.
About the Author: David Wogan is an energy and policy writer from Austin, TX. You can follow David on the web. Follow on Twitter @davidwogan.
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Left out the nuclear power option. Even if this continues to be anathema to the Western left, China does not consider it anathema. There’s nothing preventing the West from becoming a backwater as the result of energy being relatively expensive here– and recall that historically, it’s only the wealthy who can afford conservationism.
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