New today on Bogan Intelligentsia Ep 54: Dr Dr Warwick Powell drops his important book; Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters (out now on Amazon). We unpack why economies are metabolic battles against entropy, how declining EROEI spells trouble, China’s high-EROEI upgrades (electrification, supply-chain design), the US’s financialised decline trap, and why today’s crises — energy shocks, AI power crunch, de-dollarisation — are predictable thermodynamic outcomes. Forget old models; this is the reframing we need.
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