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| Prologue: The Eighth Deadly Sin | |
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| The Efficiency Paradox | |
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| The Petroleum Interval | |
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| Why Now? Why So Suddenly? | |
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| The Thermodynamics of Civilization | |
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| A Double-Edged Sword | |
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| The Conventional Wisdom | |
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| The Growth Imperative | |
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| Killing Two Birds with One Stone | |
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| The Fifth Fuel | |
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| Feeding the Nine Billion | |
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| Greenwashing | |
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| The Unconventional Wisdom | |
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| The Coal Question | |
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| Conservation, Rebound, and Backfire | |
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| Efficiency and Progress | |
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| Efficiency with Declining Supplies | |
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| Efficiency Traps | |
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| Ned, Gustavus, Henry, and Fred | |
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| Energy Efficiency Traps | |
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| Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | |
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| How Fridges Changed the World | |
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| How Many Engineers Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb? | |
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| The Efficient City Trap | |
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| The Energy Substitution Trap | |
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| Energy Returned on Energy Invested | |
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| The Fundamental Weakness of Renewable Energy | |
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| Denial Is a River in Egypt | |
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| Is the Hummer Greener Than the Prius? | |
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| Why Biofuels Are for Biofools | |
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| Efficient Oil and Gas Production: The Big Fracking Shale Mess | |
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| Clean Coal and Other Oxymorons | |
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| A Nuclear-Hydrogen Future? | |
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| An Efficiency Bridge to the Future? | |
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| The Efficient Food Trap | |
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| Good Intentions Pave the Way to Hell | |
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| Why the Green Revolution Failed and the Next One Will, Too | |
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| How the USDA and Monsanto Killed the Family Farm | |
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| How Efficiency Spoiled the Organic Movement | |
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| The Dismal Theorem | |
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| Thinking in Systems | |
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| Learning from Nature | |
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| Why Efficiency Is No Substitute for Sex | |
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| The Self-Assembling World | |
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| Why Smokey the Bear Causes Wildfires | |
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| Thinking in Systems | |
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| Controlfreakonomics | |
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| Productivity, Connectivity, and Resilience | |
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| Efficiency as a System Trap | |
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| All the Oil in the World | |
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| No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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| Conserve Oil: We Could, We Should, but We Won't | |
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| Global Climate Change: Certainties and Uncertainties | |
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| All the Oil We Can Burn, All the Carbon Dioxide We Can Emit | |
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| Carbon Dioxide Is the Least Important Greenhouse Gas | |
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| Fossil Fuels Are the Least Important Resources | |
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| Drill, Baby, Drill | |
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| Efficient Business and Economy Traps | |
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| Just in Time, Going Lean | |
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| Why the Biggest Employer in America Causes Unemployment | |
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| The CCPP Game | |
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| The Myth of the Efficient Market | |
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| An Efficient Global Economy | |
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| Efficient Public Institutions | |
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| The Ecology of Collapse | |
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| Is the Singularity Near? | |
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| The Tragedy of the Commons | |
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| Escalation and Addiction | |
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| The Overshoot Trap | |
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| Burning Bridges | |
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| Efficient Control, Efficient Collapse | |
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| The Ecology of War | |
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| Beyond Efficiency | |
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| What Will You Do in the Thirties? | |
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| Resilience: Beyond Sustainability | |
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| Biomimicry | |
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| A Steady-State Economy | |
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| Feedback Loops and Reinforcing Cycles | |
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| Diversity and Equality | |
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| Pick Your Battles | |
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| Strengthening Vital Systems | |
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| Environmental and Social Triage | |
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| Efficiency in Its Place | |
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| Recycling and Down-Cycling | |
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| Better by Design | |
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| Protecting Wild Lands | |
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| Power to the People | |
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| The End of Suburbia: Ghetto or Transition Town? | |
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| Building Sustainable Food Systems | |
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| Building Resilient Communities | |
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| Swimming against the Tide | |
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| The Three Pillars of Democracy | |
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| The Three Pillars of Sustainability | |
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| The Three Pillars of Resilience | |
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| Epilogue: The Key that Unlocks the Efficiency Trap | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |