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Crossing the Energy Divide
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 12:29 pm » in Books
It will take time to get to the new 'growth engine' suggested in 'The Economic Growth Engine', but this book shows that we can bridge the gap by...
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The Economic Growth Engine
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 12:27 pm » in Books
This book shows how GDP growth correlates with energy use. and arguesthat renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels at the rate that would be...
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The Limits to Growth
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:52 am » in Books
This book argued that without drastic change we'd all be starving by the year 2000. But we're still here, and in fact many people have escaped hunger.
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The Population Bomb.
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:52 am » in Books
The first edition started with the prediction:
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve...
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The Great Transformation
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:38 am » in Books
Polanyi read much of the work of earlier economists, and so his book provides many useful insights into economic history. I can't help feeling though...
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Possible Worlds and Other Essays
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:29 am » in Books
For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true.
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The Age of Innocence.
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:27 am » in Books
Newland Archer has plans to introduce his new wife, who has led a sheltered life, to wider interests. But is it Newland who is the innocent one?
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The Last Battle
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:23 am » in Books
This is where the religious motivation for the Narnia stories takes over from the plot. I feel there are serious inconsistencies with the earlier...
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The Horse and His Boy.
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:20 am » in Books
Queen Susan considers marrying the Calormene Prince Rabadash corresponding to the proposed marriage between Joan, the sister of Richard I, and...
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That Hideous Strength
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:17 am » in Books
The scientists have become devil-worshippers, being in thrall to a disembodied head. It's quite obvious where this head comes from: 12th Century...
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Perelandra
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:16 am » in Books
A scientist goes mad and the protagonist realizes he must kill him. A mirror to The War of the Worlds?
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Out of the Silent Planet.
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:14 am » in Books
The first book of Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy. He makes the valid point that if scientists become too arrogant then they may well miss what is really...
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The War of the Worlds
by system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:13 am » in Books
The protagonist realized that he must silence a curate who is behaving is such a crazy way as to attract the attention of the Martians — so he kills...
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