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Energy and resources are no longer free
In 1973 The Club of Rome published a report pointing out that continuous exponential growth in population, industrialisation and resource consumption is unsustainable on a planet of finite resources.
Assuming the prevailing growth trends in population, industrialisation, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continued, they demonstrated that our global systems would likely collapse...
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