“Le grand pillage : comment nous épuisons les ressources de la planète", (Institut Veblen/Les petits matins, 2015), présenté par son auteur, Ugo Bardi, professeur de physique chimie à l'université de Florence, dans le cadre des Ateliers du Shfit le 10 septembre 2015.

1. Limits to Growth and Mineral Resources
Ugo Bardi
University of Florence, Department of Earth Sciences
The Club of Rome

3. You can solve a problem, but you cannot solve a change
(especially if it is an irreversible change)

5. Diamond mine of Mir, Siberia

6. "The Hope Diamond - SIA" by Unknown - http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8819. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hope_Diamond_-_SIA.jpg#/media/File:The_Hope_Diamond_-_SIA.jpg

7. Rosia Montana gold mine, Romania

8. Gold extraction costs

11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Native_gold_nuggets.jpg
Depletion: as you eat the cake, it becomes less and less tasty

13. Net Energy: the concept of EROEI

14. Hall and Day, 2009
EROEI

16. Image from “Fantazzini et al, 2011
http://energyskeptic.com/2015/global-oil-risks-in-the-early-21st-century-energy-policy-2011/financialsense.org”

18. Source: Ron Patterson: peak oil barrel
http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/World2.jpg
Crude oil + condensate

19. World oil production
Dati ASPO (2008)

21. The Limits to Growth, 1972

22. World3 calculations 2004

23. Irreversibility: once you eat the cake, you don't have it any more

24. Solar energy arriving to the earth surface 87,000 TW
Human generated primary energy from fossil fuels 15 TW
Total greenhouse forcing 1500 TW
Global warming: a few numbers
100 + 1 kW heaters per person

25. Archer et al. 2005
Irreversibility: persistence of CO2 in atmosphere

29. Unpropaganda: the other side of propaganda

33. Reversibility:
With energy, almost any feat is possible....... W.S. Jevons
Synthetic diamonds

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Energiewende
Energy in truth stands not
beside but entirely above all
other commodities.... With
energy almost any feat is
possible or easy; without it
we are thrown back into the
laborious poverty of early
times.
William Stanley Jevons, 1866

36. Sgouridis, Bardi, Csala, http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06832
The great sustainable transition

37. As a man himself sows, so he
himself reaps... The fruit is of
the same quality as the action.
—Mahabharata, xii.291.22
Whoever sows sparingly will also
reap sparingly, and whoever sows
bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Corinthians 9:6
The Sower's Strategy:
Using today's Energy for the energy of tomorrow

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Substituting, recycling, reusing.....