How, Precisely, We’re Fucked

A review of a seminal collapse textbook

Tom Murphy, Jr.; https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions

Energy and Human Ambition on a Finite Planet is a fantastic (and free) textbook. It teaches physics in the most fascinating way, describing how, precisely, we’re fucked.

I’ll get to how fossil fuels are bad, but for now I’ll talk about how they’re good.