@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
@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
RT @itmtrading_zang: Another great book by Prof. Joseph Tainter, my guest on #CoffeewithLynette earlier today. https://t.co/Z1EKkegudl