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For appraisals see Smil 2008b MIT Press.

Georgescu-Roegen's was not hopeful: "Perhaps, the destiny of man is to have a short, but fiery, exciting and extravagant life rather than a long, uneventful and vegetative existence.

Societies focusing more on human welfare than on frivolous consumption can achieve a higher quality of life while consuming a fraction of the fuels and electricity by more wasteful nations.

The Limits of Energy Explanations

They have been behind the heavy subsidies that for decades have gone to producers of fossil fuels and nuclear electricity, and now they are behind the new subsidies promoting the constructions of photovoltaics and wind turbines.