ABSTRACT
Many are beginning to see that energy, ecology, and economics form a single, unified system, states the author, who gives twenty points to explain the energy control of our economy and the relationship to the environment. The net reserves of fossil fuels are mainly unknown, he says, but they are much smaller than the gross reserves that have been the basis of public discussions and decisions that imply that growth can continue. He offers a general answer to the present world situation, where “boom-and-bust” economies may soon be forced toward a steady state: reject economic expansionism, stop growth, use available energies for cultural conversion to steady state, and seek out the condition now that will come anyway.
