Drilling Down The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma /

• Main Authors: Tainter, Joseph A. (Author), Patzek, Tadeusz W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Energy industries.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Environmental Management.; Energy Economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Sustainable Development.

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...