raghu wrote: Progress towards energy efficiency cannot be made without letting go of the GDP religion. I think this is the key point that Gar does not address.
I don't think you should see it as a religion. That is, growth in GDP is not pursued as a "value" or out of a _belief_ that it is good. Growth in GDP is simply another name for capitalism. The one time (or one of two times) that growth actually ceased has a very special name: The Great Depression. It took upwards of 50 million deaths to get growth on its natural* upward trend. Carrol *Natural to capitalism as nutrition is natural to biological organisms.
