First, most of what I’m saying challenges deeply what is usually said about energy, resources or the economy.
So the ideas that disagree with me are the established consensus, which is why I’m already familiar with the counter-arguments usually put forward against to energy depletion:
We’ve heard about it earlier and didn’t “run out”
Prices will increase gradually
Technology will improve and solve the problem
We can have a bigger economy and less energy
We’ll just adapt
So in my post I tried my best to adress these points by explaining why ecological economists and other experts on energy and resources think they won’t solve the problem (and I’m in the process of writing a post more focused on adressing explicited these counter-arguments).
I also read some more advanced arguments against what these experts said (debates with Richard Heinberg, articles criticizing Jean-Marc Jancovici). But each time I’ve seen limits to the reasoning. For instance, what was said againt the Limits to growth report (turns out most criticism didn’t adress the core points of the report).
I’m not aware of any major thinker that is fluent on the topic of energy and its relationship with the economy, and optimistic on the topic. However, the one that was the most knowledgeable about this that I found was Dave Denkenberger, director of ALLFED, and we had a lot of exchanges, where he put some solid criticism against what I said. For some of what I wrote, I had to change my mind. For some other stuff, I had to check the litterature and I found limits that he didn’t take into account (like on investment). This was interesting (and we still do not agree, which I find weird). But I tried my best to find reviewers that could criticize what I said.
Ok, interesting question.
First, most of what I’m saying challenges deeply what is usually said about energy, resources or the economy.
So the ideas that disagree with me are the established consensus, which is why I’m already familiar with the counter-arguments usually put forward against to energy depletion:
We’ve heard about it earlier and didn’t “run out”
Prices will increase gradually
Technology will improve and solve the problem
We can have a bigger economy and less energy
We’ll just adapt
So in my post I tried my best to adress these points by explaining why ecological economists and other experts on energy and resources think they won’t solve the problem (and I’m in the process of writing a post more focused on adressing explicited these counter-arguments).
I also read some more advanced arguments against what these experts said (debates with Richard Heinberg, articles criticizing Jean-Marc Jancovici). But each time I’ve seen limits to the reasoning. For instance, what was said againt the Limits to growth report (turns out most criticism didn’t adress the core points of the report).
I’m not aware of any major thinker that is fluent on the topic of energy and its relationship with the economy, and optimistic on the topic. However, the one that was the most knowledgeable about this that I found was Dave Denkenberger, director of ALLFED, and we had a lot of exchanges, where he put some solid criticism against what I said. For some of what I wrote, I had to change my mind. For some other stuff, I had to check the litterature and I found limits that he didn’t take into account (like on investment). This was interesting (and we still do not agree, which I find weird). But I tried my best to find reviewers that could criticize what I said.