@aeberman12 Tainter has talked and written a lot about the key role of energy in fostering and enabling societal complexity - he calls it the "energy-complexity spiral". For example here: https://t.co/KfcFSl6etn https://t.co/qgOjrByve1
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@BenEhrenreich @NYTmag The reason is that a society's buildup of complexity is always reliant on its biophysical underpinnings, and more particularly on the quantity and quality of its energy supply. That's what Joseph Tainter calls the 'energy-complexity
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RT @johnthackara: maybe archaeology describes the future when the energy-complexity spiral changes direction - from up, to down https://t…