Filipe Peixoto
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

This is a very interesting piece, although, as a Brazilian, I’ve liked to read some more about the consequences of us being beyond the energy peak in third world countries, and for international inequality in general. Since the nations are competing for access to energy, as much as social groups, I’d think this could become the cause for more wars and social instability in less developed countries, and that problems with access to traditional energetic resources will be bigger here since the developed countries seem to try to monopolize access to dwindling strategic resources (such as energy).

This piece is, nonetheless, very important, going through many different point: economy, prosperity, inequality, energy, quality of life, and leaving open areas to dialogue with sociology and anthropology, and other disciplines that can also think about development and the current (economic and political) system we life in. In Latin America we have a lot of discussion about development, and what is it that we really want (what KIND of development, so to say). I’m pleased to find echoes of this discussion here, although maybe not as pronounced as I am used to since your circumstances are different, parting from the point-of-view of more developed countries.

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    Filipe Peixoto

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    Mestre em Sociologia pelo IESP, graduado em Ciências Sociais pela UFRJ.