1. Increased efficiency and curtailing the expansion of material stocks in the UK:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344920302780#bib0035
Title - "Stock-flow relations in the socio-economic metabolism of the United Kingdom 1800–2017".
Socio-economic metabolism refers to a society's use of biophysical resources (i.e., energy and materials), a key factor in the sustainability arena.
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2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629615300827
Title - "How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions".
When I last taught Ecology (at the college level, in the 1990's), the conventional wisdom was: it takes about forty years for a society to change from one primary energy source to another. That is being re-evaluated.
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3. The term, "economic growth", sounds really great, but is it? When thinking about the topic, too many people have faulty assumptions and tend to ignore two of the main effects of econ growth: income inequality, and gross pollution of our biosphere.
https://steadystate.org/who-does-economic-growth-serve/
The author, Brian F. Snyder, is an assistant professor of environmental science at Louisiana State University.
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