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(1) Jackson, Tim. “The Myth of Decoupling.” In Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow. New York: Routledge, 2007.

(2) Collins, Chuck, Omar Ocampo, and Sophia Paslaski. “Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers.” Institute for Policy Studies, April 23, 2020.

(3) For More on the immensity of Bezo’s wealth see Warren, Kate. “Jeff Bezos Has Gotten $70 Billion Richer in the Past 12 Months.” Business Insider, September 15, 2020.

(4)+(5) Post Growth Toolkits (The Interviews), 2020.

(6) Fuller, R. Buckmeister. “World Energy.” Fortune, February 1940.

(7) Jancovici, Jean-Marc. “How Much of a Slave Master Am I?” Manicore, May 1, 2005.

(8) + (9) Coricone, Adryan. “Eco-Fascism: What It Is, Why It’s Wrong, and How to Fight It.” Teen Vogue, April 30, 2020.

(10) Featherstone, Liza. “Don’t Blame the Babies.” Jacobin, April 15, 2019.

(11) Ted Trainer, The Simpler Way, quoted in Pyke, Toni. “The Energy Debate: Renewable Energy Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels.” Development Education, April 12, 2017.

(12) Jancovici, Jean-Marc. “Averting Systemic Collapse… or Managing It.” OECD Conference Centre, Paris, 2019.

(13) Daggett, Cara New. The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. p. 3.

(14) Ibid., p.1.

(15) For more on the concept of “Ancient Sunlight” see Hartmann, Thom. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

(16) Squires, Bethy. “Pick-Up Artists Don’t Understand What ‘Alpha’ Even Means—As Evidenced by Wolves.” Vice, October 27, 2016.

(17)+(18)+(19) Jabr, Ferris. “The Social Life of Forests.” The New York Times, December 6, 2020.

(20) Kyle Smith. “That world happiness survey is complete crap.” New York Post, March 22, 2017.

(21) Attributed to American industrialist Henry Ford.