Muddling Toward Frugality

Foresees the social and economic benefits of the energy crisis as Americans are forced to alter lifestyles, increase self-sufficiency, and strengthen communities when geographic mobility is reduced

MUDDLING TOWARD FRUGALITY

Johnson, Warren

Shambhala

Wrestling

Umbach, Arnold William

Sports & Outdoors

William C Brown Pub

Mr. Johnsons thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially the nonrenewable kind, become harder to find and more expensive to extract, process, transport and distribute. This simple brute fact is the basic cause of inflation, despite the inability of most professional economists to see it. (The dismal science has never been more dismally obtuse than it is today.) The law of diminishing returns is coming into effect. Technological developments can delay the process but not halt or reverse it; nor can we rely on government or big business to save us. Planning for further growth delays the adjustments that must be made, makes a fair sharing of necessary sacrifices more troublesome, and if carried too far will make more severe and painful, because rapid, the inevitable decline of the international economic machine. The best way to deal with the end of affluence is to accept itnot fight itand to begin, here and now, the unavoidable adaptations, on an individual, family, and community basis. Piecemeal, experimental, and muddling.

Random House, Inc.

Peterbilt, the Evolution of Class is a complete history of Peterbilt trucks using their data sheets, photos and engineering drawings. The book is 256 pages, color, and contains over 300 pictures and drawings. It also lists every model built since its inception in 1939.

Peterbilt: The Evolution of Class

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Motorbooks Intl

The Gift Of Peaceful Genes: Cultural Evolution On A Finite Earth

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A Modest Project to Save the World: The Gift of Peaceful Genes

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Archway Publishing

Mr. Johnson’s thesis can be summarized without much difficulty: after generations of extravagant and reckless industrial expansion, we are clearly entering an age of economic scarcity. While human demands continue to rise, natural resources, especially the non-renewable kind, become harder to find and more expensive to extract, process, transport and distribute. This simple brute fact is the basic cause of inflation, despite the inability of most professional economists to see it. (The dismal science” has never been more dismally obtuse than it is today.) The law of diminishing returns is coming into effect. Technological developments can delay the process but not halt or reverse it; nor can we rely on government or big business to save us. Planning for further growth delays the adjustments that must be made, makes a fair sharing of necessary sacrifices more troublesome, and if carried too far will make more severe and painful, because rapid, the inevitable decline of the international economic machine. The best way to deal with the end of affluence is to accept itnot fight itand to begin, here and now, the unavoidable adaptations, on an individual, family, and community basis. Piecemeal, experimental, and muddling.

Business & Money

Economics

Easton Studio Press

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