The supply of money in an energy-scarce world

“Money has no value unless it can be exchanged for goods and services. These cannot be supplied without the use of some form of energy.” “Consequently, if less energy is available in future, the existing stock of money can either lose its value gradually (through inflation). Or if inflation is resisted, [the existing stock of money] …

Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson died recently. He was founder of Interface, a company making industrial-grade carpets from oil. In around 1990 he was writing the ‘sustainability code’ for his own company and he was depressed to find that the best he could come up with was “We will comply with government regulation.” Then Paul Hawken’s “Ecology of …