Episode 28: Paul's work focuses on the environmental impact of human consumption, and his research on climate change, energy, and food has appeared in leading scientific journals. Paul is passionate about science communication and his work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC, and Scientific American. Paul has recently finished a textbook on Food Sustainability, to be published with Oxford University Press at the start of 2019.

Paul is a physicist by training, his Ph.D. is from the University of Auckland (New Zealand), where he developed techniques for improving wind energy generation in mountainous terrain. Paul has worked in industry, NGOs, and academia. He has worked at the Royal Society of New Zealand, providing expert scientific advice to the New Zealand Government on environmental sustainability and other topics.

Note from David: This is definitely not our last talk!

This episode's motto: "I sure hope we get to the social tipping point before we get to the ecological one!"

EROI Charles Hall: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513003856

A related article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eroi-charles-hall-will-fossil-fuels-maintain-economic-growth/

Joeseph Tainter: https://www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeological-theory-and-methods/collapse-complex-societies?format=PB&isbn=9780521386739

David Graeber: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295/295446/bullshit-jobs/9780141983479.html

Rutger Hoekstra (Replacing GDP by 2030):

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/replacing-gdp-by-2030/1583BE07055EAD85CBFECE1FC5EF6442

David's post on using time for life instead of work:

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=961

David's book reviews of mentioned work:

http://www.aguanomics.com/2010/05/collapse-review.html

http://www.aguanomics.com/2010/06/limits-to-growth-review.html

https://www.aguanomics.com/2017/08/review-in-our-hands.html (UBI)