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By: Book review – The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:51:00 +0000

[…] of long-term challenges to humanity. It is the third report from Bardi after Extracted and The Seneca Effect. A foreword by two co-presidents of the Club of Rome calls the book a brainchild of the […]

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By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:29:27 +0000

[…] far off). Technology has a role to play if it is employed more responsibly. To avoid stepping off the Seneca Cliff into wholesale collapse, they envision a transition to a steady-state economy that acknowledges […]

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By: Book review – COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:04:27 +0000

[…] tipping points, resilience to shocks, global supply chains, and, ultimately, the possibility of rapid collapse. Oh, and, depending on your point of view, a (un)surprising list of typically undervalued and […]

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By: Book review – Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 08 May 2020 14:07:08 +0000

[…] words, that “growth is slow, but the way to ruin is rapid”. This led Bardi to write The Seneca Effect in 2017, which was reviewed here previously. Now he is back with Before the Collapse, a book aimed […]

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By: Book review – Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 20:07:00 +0000

[…] suffer a bit from recency bias themselves. Beware the cliff, Bardi would say (see my review of The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid). Perhaps they chose not to focus on these matters in this book. And from the above quotes it seems […]

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By: Book review – Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:08:12 +0000

[…] words, that “growth is slow, but the way to ruin is rapid”. This led Bardi to write The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid in 2017, which was reviewed here previously. Now he is back with Before the Collapse, a book aimed […]

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By: Book review – Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 03 May 2019 15:56:54 +0000

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By: Book review – The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:26:28 +0000

[…] And, as Beiser urges the reader to realise, it’s not just sand, it’s pretty much everything (I was very pleased to see Beiser give a nod to The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age here – shortages of these rare metals is another topic that is not mentioned enough). At this rate, it is hard not to feel like we are heading for a Seneca-syle collapse (see The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid). […]

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