Lesson 8

Run Time - 28 Minutes

Chapter 22

Energy & the Economy

This chapter synthesizes the pathbreaking work of many researchers who have tirelessly worked to advance our understanding of the role of energy in our lives and as the lifeblood of all economies.  We need to pay special attention to energy in our exponential debt-based money system that is based on exponentially increasing energy supplies.  In this chapter on Peak Cheap Oil, we’ll tease apart different energy sources and especially highlight the importance of transportation fuels.

Chapter 23

The Environment Depleting Resources

While we expect to be able to exponentially extract resources from the environment, essential resources are fast becoming more expensive to produce, harder to find, or both – from oil and precious metals to water and soil.  Learn about the concept of net energy and the crucial argument for money and debt to be held in some sort of relationship with primary and secondary wealth.

Chapter 24

The Environment Increasing Waste

Part of the disheartening part of the story of “Environment” is the waste streams we put back into it and the impact they have on the ecosystems upon which we – and all organisms – depend.