At 04:42 PM -0500 1/18/08, Dan Fiscus wrote: > a quote from the book, "A >Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies", by Howard and >Elizabeth Odum (2001) > There's an article as well, titled The Prosperous Way Down.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V2S-4CVRKBT-6&_user=521393&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000059568&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=521393&md5=bdebd5ab3c2d51916e87bf39b6239159 Energy Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 21-32 The Second Biennial International Workshop "Advances in Energy Studies" doi:10.1016/j.energy.2004.05.012 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. The prosperous way down Howard T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Oduma, , aSanta Fe Community College, 3000 NW 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL 32606, USA Available online 14 July 2004. Abstract Principles that appear to govern all systems including human societies were used to consider the time of economic descent ahead. These include the energy laws, the emergy concept, the maximum empower principle, the universal energy hierarchy, the conservation and hierarchical distribution of materials, the spatial organization of centers, and the pulsing paradigm. Population and cities, energy consumption and climate change, agriculture and environment, information and electric power, capitalism and economic policies, structures and materials, human life and standard of living are dealt with in this paper as interconnected aspects of the same problem, i.e. the necessary descent phase of human economies, due to decreasing resource base. We expect much of the resource use, culture and public policy appropriate for the growth period to be replaced with a new set of ethics and policies affecting each scale of time and space during descent. Decisive changes in attitudes and pract! ices can divert a destructive collapse, leading instead to a prosperous way down.
