Buckminster Fuller, in his "Cosmic Costing[?]", was an early advocate of energy economics. Modern theorists of energy economics are also often students of complexity theory, e.g. Joseph Tainter[?].
Energy economics is considered by some an offshoot of deep ecology movements - they share the view that human beings can suffer population dieoff[?] when an energy supply is exhausted. This is considered inescapable. Accordingly, a prime motive of energy economics is energy conservation[?].
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