Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use. Population, Climate, Water, Agriculture (topsoil depletion), and Energy... A couple of books i think are worth reading: 1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 2. Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects 3. Limits to Growth 4. Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World 5. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change 6.The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
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