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Mass Consumption More More More
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The Anthropocene From Hunter-Gatherers to a Global Geophysical Force in just 10,000 years. Proxy Waveforms for Global Consumerism 1750 to 2000 Changing "Human Enterprise" Note the Great Acceleration around 1950 in rate changes.
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Mass consumption looks like this Economics not sustainability awareness
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Ocean Gyres Giant diffuse collection points of the plastic waste of humanity. Takes many years for individual bottle cap to find itself here.
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The WalMart Express Cheap plastic crap here
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Globalization Wave Form Factor of 10 Growth in just 25 years! This is the principle driver of Climate Change
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Global Economic Meltdown temporary blip 12% Annual Growth Rate last 3 years Need more Super Container Fleets and Ports to Scale
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Shipping fleets gear up to serve more and more consumers
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2013 Container Port Traffic; Asia Dominates
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Non-Linear Scaling
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From IEA 2013
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Power sector means “keeping the lights on” – replacing aging infrastructure; meet decarbonizing targets (mostly EU) to better accommodate renewables; new transmission and distribution grids;
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Crank Turning Resource Scarcity Physical limits to per capita resource usage Increasing Global Inequity This ultimately is our Post WWII consumption legacy and its definitely driving the coming resource shortage - Is this the end state of E? Does E require consumption to reach its principles because increasing prosperity requires increasing consumption?
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