http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/15/the-bottomless-well-how-energy-consumption-creates-more-energy-2/ Climate Change News & Analysis Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/15/the-bottomless-well-how-energy-consumption-creates-more-energy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-65941 - Resourceful Earth Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:57:38 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11276#comment-65941 [...] have believed (Daniel Yergin). 2) Natural resource consumption leads to more, not less resources (Mark Mills/Peter Huber). 3) Natural resources aren’t “natural”–they are the result of human [...] [...] have believed (Daniel Yergin). 2) Natural resource consumption leads to more, not less resources (Mark Mills/Peter Huber). 3) Natural resources aren’t “natural”–they are the result of human [...]

]]> http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/15/the-bottomless-well-how-energy-consumption-creates-more-energy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-65931 Robert Bradley: There Are No “Natural Resources” | Hold Your Future Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:00:26 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11276#comment-65931 [...] Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume energy to discover and create more energy through technological advances.  Today’s excerpt from Robert Bradley’s 2009 book Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy makes a similar point, that there are no such thing as “natural” resources.  As he writes, “Resources without man are not resources.” [...] [...] Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume energy to discover and create more energy through technological advances.  Today’s excerpt from Robert Bradley’s 2009 book Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy makes a similar point, that there are no such thing as “natural” resources.  As he writes, “Resources without man are not resources.” [...]

]]> http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/15/the-bottomless-well-how-energy-consumption-creates-more-energy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-65908 - Resourceful Earth Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:10:50 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11276#comment-65908 [...] TweetYesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume energy to discover and create more energy through technological advances.  Today’s excerpt from Robert Bradley’s 2009 book Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy makes a similar point, that there are no such thing as “natural” resources.  As he writes, “Resources without man are not resources.” His name is not found in economics textbooks or histories of economic thought. Where it does appear, his Germanic surname is often misspelled. His contribution is virtually unknown in the world’s vast mineral-resource industries today. Government policies owe little or nothing to him. Yet Erich Zimmermann (1888–1961) developed a new theory to explain why fixity and depletion were the wrong way to view minerals in an economic and business sense.  [...] [...] TweetYesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume energy to discover and create more energy through technological advances.  Today’s excerpt from Robert Bradley’s 2009 book Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy makes a similar point, that there are no such thing as “natural” resources.  As he writes, “Resources without man are not resources.” His name is not found in economics textbooks or histories of economic thought. Where it does appear, his Germanic surname is often misspelled. His contribution is virtually unknown in the world’s vast mineral-resource industries today. Government policies owe little or nothing to him. Yet Erich Zimmermann (1888–1961) developed a new theory to explain why fixity and depletion were the wrong way to view minerals in an economic and business sense.  [...]

]]> http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/15/the-bottomless-well-how-energy-consumption-creates-more-energy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-65903 Robert Bradley: There Are No “Natural Resources” Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:30:29 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=11276#comment-65903 [...] There Are No “Natural Resources”by David Bier on November 16, 2011in Blog Tweet Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume [...] [...] There Are No “Natural Resources”by David Bier on November 16, 2011in Blog Tweet Yesterday’s excerpt from Mark Mills and Peter Huber’s book The Bottomless Well showed how people consume [...]

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