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| #1383536 in Books | 2014-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.90 x5.50l, | File type: PDF | 296 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Fuller, Smil, Tainter (1)|By Jerry Richardson|A very important book because it's the first one stop discussion of the ideas of R Buckminster Fuller, Vaclav Smil, and Joseph A Tainter. These three people get energy, economics, systems, and history right. The late and great Bucky Fuller came up with the idea of "energy slaves" decades ago which is the idea for the title of||
|"In this cogently argued book, Andrew Nikiforuk deploys a powerful metaphor. Oil dependency, he writes, is a modern form of slavery-and it's time for a global abolition movement" —Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder||"A startling critique that
Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. In the early 19th century, the slave trade became one of the most profitable enterprises on the planet. Economists described the system as necessary for progress. Slaveholders viewed religious critics as hostilely as oil companies now regard environmentalists. Yet the abolition movement that triumphed in the 1850s had an in...
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