The Conservation Bomb?

Yet another interesting MIT Technology Review article, from last June (see, I pay attention, duh), this one on the long-term benefits of conservation. Interesting factoid mentioned is that the amount of energy needed to generate a dollar of gross national product (GNP) has dropped over the last hundred years. Thus, we're making more money while using less energy, and this at a conservation rate of 1% a year. The author calls for an increase to 2% a year, a rather painless increase, and this alone will handle even the UN's predicted population increase (to 10 billion by 2100).

Good read.