Mass Consumption More More More
The Anthropocene From Hunter-Gatherers to a Global Geophysical Force in just 10,000 years. Proxy Waveforms for Global Consumerism 1750 to 2000 Changing "Human Enterprise" Note the Great Acceleration around 1950 in rate changes.
Mass consumption looks like this Economics not sustainability awareness
Ocean Gyres Giant diffuse collection points of the plastic waste of humanity. Takes many years for individual bottle cap to find itself here.
The WalMart Express Cheap plastic crap here
Globalization Wave Form Factor of 10 Growth in just 25 years! This is the principle driver of Climate Change
Global Economic Meltdown temporary blip 12% Annual Growth Rate last 3 years Need more Super Container Fleets and Ports to Scale
Shipping fleets gear up to serve more and more consumers
2013 Container Port Traffic; Asia Dominates
Non-Linear Scaling
From IEA 2013
Power sector means “keeping the lights on” – replacing aging infrastructure; meet decarbonizing targets (mostly EU) to better accommodate renewables; new transmission and distribution grids;
Crank Turning Resource Scarcity Physical limits to per capita resource usage Increasing Global Inequity This ultimately is our Post WWII consumption legacy and its definitely driving the coming resource shortage - Is this the end state of E? Does E require consumption to reach its principles because increasing prosperity requires increasing consumption?