The end of industrial civilisation

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3076, 2016, pág. 29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • MacKenzie determines how industrial civilization will end. Societies inevitably grow more complex as they chase prosperity and find solutions to the problems thrown up by success, and that comes at a cost: energy. Civilizations collapse, the thinking goes, when they can no longer generate enough juice to maintain existing complexity and solve new problems. People got to where they are today because the industrial revolution exploited readily available high-quality anthracite coal