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Unfortunately, this insightful and brilliant analysis is wasted on the nihilistic busybodies sternly marching through our institutions as they lay waste to common sense and our futures. It's magic for morons. Maybe it should be infused with the latest intersectionality bon mots......

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I think this article points to humans and our relatives being fire apes first as well.

Homo naledi is more like a holdover than human. They might even be, like chimpanzees, a parallel species and competitor that might have developed into a different humanlike intelligence with a more apelike body given enough time. I have wondered if species like this could explain our troll myths. Meeting a band of Homo naledi would have been terrifying and probably extremely dangerous.

Anyway, it supports the exergy in evolution thesis.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2350008-homo-naledi-may-have-used-fire-to-cook-and-navigate-230000-years-ago/

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The characterization of the Paleozoic is incorrect. The world was warmer and wetter for a long time, which formed the coal layers. Oil is not well understood yet. But, it may be continuously formed even today by burying of methane clathrates in the seabed and in permafrost. Subduction and pressure over geological time probably turns clathrates into oil but incompletely, which may explain the presence of natural gas with oil.

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Add Tim Garrett's work to that.

Lotka's Wheel and the Long Arm of History. (2022)

https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1021/2022/esd-13-1021-2022.html

Economics and production integral.

Are there basic physical constraints on the anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide? (2011)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-009-9717-9

Here he finds a lockstep correlation of 9.7 ±0.3 militants per constant 1990 dollar. (Adjusted for inflation.)

Also add Steve Keen.

A note on the role of energy in production. (2019)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800917311746

This is Steve's rework of the Cobb-Douglas equation bringing in energy. Around eq. 22 IIRC.

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