The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma
by
Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the...