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Over the last few centuries, the ‘progressive’ trajectory of human civilization can be encapsulated in data for energy consumption and GDP.
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Ahmed, N.M. (2017). Permanent Secular Stagnation. In: Failing States, Collapsing Systems. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47816-6_4
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