As the energy transition proceeds and the world takes more aggressive steps to curb global warming, analysts from many disciplines are questioning how economic growth can be maintained, or if there are limits to growth\u2014a concept first raised in the 1970s\u2014that will also limit the progression of energy transition. Will we run into fundamental limits on resources and debt? Or can human ingenuity and technological innovation continue to overcome any limits we encounter?<\/p>\n
These two narratives\u2014techno-realism and techno-optimism\u2014compete for our attention and argue for very different trajectories of energy transition. In this episode, we speak with researcher and author Carey King about his new book, The Economic <\/em>Superorganism, which explores the scientific and rhetorical basis of the competing narratives both within and between energy technology and economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To what extent will economics and fundamental limits of energy resources guide and control the progress of energy transition? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[264,334,327,25,84,336],"class_list":["post-2790","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-biophysical-economics","tag-degrowth","tag-ecological-economics","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-steady-state-economics","xen_guests-carey-king"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n