Category: Back of an envelope
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Accounting for a crowded but sustainable planet
We need to change the way we account for things as we hit the resource wall. We cannot continue to regard, from an accounting point of view, resources as infinate. Her’s an attempt to form a sustainable approach: In my last post I argued that: Technology is a collection of inventions and capabilities to solve…
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The world may be smaller than you think. This is why we need to invest in securing land.
There are total 14.8 billion hectares of land on the surface of the Earth Only about 30% is inhabitable There are 6.8 billion people on the planet That gives 0,65 hectare per person to live on 10% of land is arable (of that only a quarter is cultivated today) That gives about 0.2 hectare per…
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Mr Oil is already making a long, slow exit. You might not be seeing it though…
Since the end of the First World War, oil has been flowing into almost every aspect of our daily lives: as fuel, as basis for chemicals, as plastic, fabrics etc. In fact today, it is hard to think of a product that does NOT contain a large portion of oil or oil energy. Oil is…
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World oil production and consumption set to fall
It may sound incredible, but there HAS to be a finite amount of oil in the world. The figures here are based on what is already discovered and what is thought to be available. And they are finding less and less oil by the year. So with the world population slated to grow by another…