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p. 239 ‘Hundreds of orang-utans are killed a year because they get in the way of oil-palm biofuel plantations’. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/14/eaorang114.xml.
p. 239 ‘says the energy expert Jesse Ausubel’. Ausubel, J. 2007. Renewable and nuclear heresies. International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology 1:229–43.
p. 241 ‘Between 2004 and 2007 the world maize harvest increased by fiftyone million tonnes’. Avery, D.T. 2008. The Massive Food and Land Costs of US Corn Ethanol: an Update. Competitive Enterprise Institute no. 144, 29 October 2008.
p. 241 ‘American car drivers were taking carbohydrates out of the mouths of the poor to fill their tanks’. Mitchell, D.A. 2008. Note on Rising Food Prices. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 4682. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1233058.
p. 241 ‘So the question is: how much fuel does it take to grow fuel? Answer: about the same amount.’ Bryce, R. 2008. Gusher of Lies. Perseus Books.
p. 242 ‘says Joseph Fargione of the Nature Conservancy’. Fargione, J. et al. 2008. Land clearing the biofuel carbon debt. Science 319:1235–8.
p. 242 ‘the biofuel industry is not just bad for the economy. It is bad for the planet, too.’ Bryce, R. 2008. Gusher of Lies. Perseus Books.
p. 243 ‘to quote the ecologist E.O. Wilson’. Wilson. E.O. 1999. The Diversity of Life. Penguin.
p. 244 ‘as Peter Huber and Mark Mills put it’. Huber, P.W. and Mills, M.P. 2005. The Bottomless Well: the Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. Basic Books.
p. 244 ‘A modern combined-cycle’. A combined-cycle turbine uses burning gas itself to drive one turbine and then uses the heat to generate steam to drive another.
p. 245 ‘the Victorian economist Stanley Jevons’. Jevons, S. 1865. The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-mines. Macmillan, p. 103.
p. 246 ‘Thomas Edison deserves the last word’. Edison in 1910, quoted in Collins, T. and Gitelman, L, Thomas Edison and Modern America. New York: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2002, p. 60. Source: Bradley, R.J. 2004. Energy: the Master Resource. Kendall/Hunt.
Chapter 8
p. 247 ‘He who receives an idea from me’. Thomas Jefferson letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813. http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl220.htm.
p. 247 World product graph. Maddison, A. 2006. The World Economy. OECD Publishing.
p. 249 ‘said Ricardo’. Ricardo, D. 1817. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
p. 249 ‘neo-classical economics gloomily forecast the end of growth’. Beinhocker, E. 2006. The Origin of Wealth. Random House.
p. 249 ‘As the economist Eamonn Butler puts it’. Butler, E. 2008. The Best Book on the Market. Capstone.
p. 250 ‘the failure of any particular market to match the perfect market no more constitutes “market failure”’. This point is made in Booth, P. 2008. Market failure: a failed paradigm. Economic Affairs 28:72–4.
p. 250 ‘the science of ecology has an enduring fallacy that in the natural world there is some perfect state of balance to which an ecosystem will return’. Kricher, J. 2009. The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth. Princeton University Press. ‘As a result of research over the past several decades, ecologists have come to understand the reality of ecosystem dynamics, and have largely abandoned the notion that nature exists in some sort of meaningful natural balance.’
p. 251 ‘No country remains for long the leader in knowledge creation.’ Indeed, so iron is the rule of ephemeral innovation that it has been given its