What happens if you choose EROEI curves that decline faster or slower? One can change the curve for one that declines faster, such as a cubic. In this case, the world doesn’t even have time to adapt to the first peak in production of a fossil fuel (peak oil), and industrial production collapses before there [...]

The life expectancy of adults is longer than that in many more complex societies, even tough the Bushmen suffer higher infant mortality and a higher death rate from accidents because of the absence of doctors and hospitals. About a tenth of the Bushmen studied by the interdisciplinary team were older than sixty years – or [...]

One rarely mentioned aspect of the encounter between Indians and Whites was the appeal that the Indian societies held for generation after generation of Whites. No sooner did the first Europeans arrive in North America than a disproportionate number of them showed a preference for Indian society over their own. Within only a few year [...]