Our Future of Energy Policy–and Defunct Civilizations
Here’s a short but wonderful article by Allan Hoffman, PhD USDoE (Ret.) that summarizes U.S. energy policy and where it may be headed vis-à-vis the Earth’s great empires and what eventually brought them down.
Of course, there are many great aphorisms that speak to the relationship of history to the future, perhaps the most famous of which comes to us from Spanish philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In this case, the author closes with a similar notion: “We should learn from history, not just repeat it.” (more…)