fyi I think you guys were a big help in finding a way to fram some complicated ideas on Wikipedia, on global warming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigation_of_global_warming that seems to have survived with only tiny edits for a few days...
A valid criticism of this strategy is that it offers only temporary symptomatic relief, allowing the continual expansion of the growth economy to a point where compensating for its impacts with efficiencies and new technologies will not be possible. World economic energy efficiency is presently improving at about half the rate of world economic growth (US DOE World Trends <http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/carbonemiss/chapter1.html>), and there's no reason to think the thermodynamic limits of efficiency do not apply to the efficiency of natural and human services just because their measures don't have comparable units. Both common sense and the consistent pattern that all technologies and efficiencies are quickly exhausted (technology lifecycle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_lifecycle>) indicate that relying on technical fixes to allow continually exploding economic expansion is faulty. One alternative would be to learn how to mature the economic systems following the example of maturing natural growth systems. Anything to add?
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