Civilization is a Heat Engine
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation (plos.org)
Read MoreMET Hours per Week and Mortality Risk
What Are METs, and How Are They Calculated? (healthline.com) After about 3 MET/hours/day marginal gains in life expectancy start to drop off. Finally, above a threshold life expectancy decrease. Note this also means a half hour of…
Read MoreAlcohol Consumption and Years of Life Lost (YLL) a Lancet Meta-Study
Consumption of a drink a day in comparison to none appears to provide decreased all-cause mortality (from other studies). Perhaps largely due to cardiac mortality benefits. Cardiac based death risk is the largest one by age 65, perhaps…
Read MoreBody Mass Index (BMI) and Longevity n 3,600,000 Lancet
Association of BMI with overall and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study of 3·6 million adults in the UK (thelancet.com)
Read MoreWalkable Urban Areas and Public Planning
Opinion | City Life, Culture Wars and Conspiracy Theories – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Read MoreA Project to Cripple Democracy and Advance Fascism
A threat to free speech: Ron DeSantis targets journalists, media with new legislation (msn.com) Attack facts, attack history, attack books, attack teachers, attack science, attack memory, attack immigrants, attack LBG, attack…
Read MoreFROEI: a Fish Tale
Read MoreEconomics for the Anthropocene
Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism (energyandourfuture.org) Nate Hagens – Post Carbon Institute
Read MoreMap of the United States of Mexico 1824
Read MoreThe Limits to Growth at 50 Years: Closing Doors and Rising Risks
Update to limits to growth (stanford.edu) TGS57 Gaya Herrington Transcript.docx (squarespace.com) (72) Ugo Bardi – The Limits to Growth 50 years later. The role of models in studying the future” – YouTube Ugo Bardi is a…
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