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- Feb 2024
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Oversh
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- Sep 2023
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journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
- Aug 2023
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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This increasing energy extraction could then, contra Malthus, support an exponentially growing population.
- for: Malthus - energy extraction, overshoot,
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- increasing energy extraction via cultural evolution of new energy saving and extraction technologies allows a population to continue growing exponentially instead of crashing due to limits of energy extraction growth.
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- Mar 2023
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library.oapen.org library.oapen.org
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- Title: Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits
- This book explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits.
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Theconcept of consumption corridors combines notions of human needs,individual preferences, and freedom as the basis for a good life for all.
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- When
- human needs
- individual preferences
- individual freedom
- are combined, it provides the individual with agency, creativity and freedom to choose a lifetsyle within ecological limits
- Especially when we are collectively in overshoot, we must adhere to such limits
- Limits always exist within any society. There is no such thing as absolute freedom
- However, we have been abusing our ecological freedom and have thereby threatened our own existence by doing so
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