<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/adb_poster_deep_debt-222x300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="74" height="100" /></span>Understanding the nature of our energy basis is critical to understanding where we are headed as a civilization. Unless people have received unusual education to break their conditioning to expect and desire growth, most people are so schooled and immersed in the growth story that they do not realize that there may be other possible futures, especially in the US where growth has been so consistent and rapid. In this period of global resource transition, peoples’ beliefs are separating into a growth continuum of three general belief systems or world views that inform our lives and trace a trajectory for our future.</p>
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