The Coal Question
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The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines is a book that economist William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1865 to explore the implicat
Cover of the second edition
Jevons' graph extrapolating to 1970 the exponential growth of coal production
The Limits to Growth
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The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. The study used the
The Coal Question
…the finite nature of its primary energy resource. In propounding this thesis, Jevons covered a range of issues central to sustainability, including limits to growth, overpopulation, overshoot, energy return on energy input (EROEI), taxation of energy resources, renewable energy alternatives, and resource peaking…
Researchers from China and Indonesia with Dennis Meadows