Our Global Ponzi Scheme

By Lester Brown, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

June 26, 2013

NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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Tags: ecological constraints, energy-reality, limits to growth

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