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The Resource Imperative

Promoting prosperity through greater energy & resource productivity. 

The Resource Imperative blog is devoted to exploring the social, physical and economic aspects of promoting a more robust and sustainable economy through greater levels of energy and resource productivity.  
 

Can 17th-century philosophy be relevant to climate change?

Pascal’s Wager was initially designed to influence one into believing in God by showing the consequences of believing in God versus not believing in God. We can repurpose this grid to influence one into supporting climate change mitigation measures by showing the consequences of supporting such measures versus not supporting them.

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Imagine: Climate Change as an Economic Damage Function

Based on data from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and as shown in the two graphs that follow, the global climate is clearly warming. In fact, February 2023 will very likely be designated as the 458th consecutive month in which temperatures, at least nominally, were above the 20th-century average. That means anyone under the age of 38 has—not even once—experienced normal or below-normal monthly temperatures.

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The Hidden Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse

It is so much more than climate For the first time in 2020, our anthropogenic mass finally equaled all the biomass on Earth. We are, indeed, into the Anthropocene. And it is causing a very big and diminishing resource productivity, so that

Saving Lake Atitlán

Understanding Guatemala’s Treasured Lake in a Cultural Ethnographic Lens Some time back, as I gazed upon the panoramic view of the volcanic, mountainous terrain around Lake Atitlán after hiking the “Indian Nose Sunrise,” I was talking to our group tour

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The Necessity of an Economic Paradigm Shift

A serious essay on the need to retire our old arguments and economic thinking. It is time that we, all of humanity, stopped using 18th-century economic paradigm(s) to solve vastly different 21st-century challenges.  For starters, the global population has grown

Climate Change as a Fungal Spore?

I had forgotten about it until a friend recently got it. Ten years ago I  never saw it coming, and I never really felt it until it flared.   The episode for me likely began a decade ago as an

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