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# Energy and the English Industrial Revolution

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    Groundbreaking
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2012*

Mr. Wrigley has written a very impressive book on the English industrial revolution.  Actually this book is a trailblazer for economic history and the importance of energy and energy development in economic growth.  Mr. Wrigley begins with the concept of an organic economy.  In the organic economy land is the source of all food, natural resources, and energy.  Quoting Mr. Wrigley "All industrial production depended vegetable or animal raw materials.  This is self-evidently true of industries such as woollen textile production or shoemaking but is also true of iron smelting or pottery manufacturing, although their raw materials were mineral, since production was possible by making use of a source of heat and this came from burning wood or charcoal.  Thus the production horizon for all organic economies was set by the annual cycle of plant growth."  The amount of energy absorbed by plants from the sun from photosynthesis set the ceiling for productive capacity.  Thus economic production was limited.  Most people lived in squalor and poverty without luxuries or much medical care.  When populations grew living standards fell due to the production constraint.  Then malnutrition and disease reduced population to a supportable level.The English industrial revolution, by developing the coal industry, and obtaining greater and greater quantities of energy from coal broke free from the constraint of plant growth and escaped the organic economy.  From greater quantities of energy it was possible to build better transportation, develop new industries, and provide better lives for the populace.  Low cost and available coal energy made possible the steam engine, the railroad,  and many other labor saving innovations.  These inventions made more goods available to the population and further improved the lives of the population.Interestingly, the escape from the organic economy remained unseen by the Classical economists.  Classical economists Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus all accepted as the given the constraints of the organic economy.  Thus the limits set by the supply of land figured in the economic models of all these economists.  It was only later that economists did not accept land as a severely limiting constraint on production.  It is to the credit of Mr. Wrigley that he describes the Classical economist's theories with respect to land and energy in some detail.Mr. Wrigley goes into great detail on the English population statistics and demonstrates how the rising quantities of energy coincided with the growth of the new industrial cities and the capital London.  He demonstrates that increasing non-plant based energy supplies were a necessary condition for industrial growth and rising living standards.  He details the revolutions in the transport and consumer goods industries.In essence Mr. Wrigley has done excellent service in debunking the eco freak argument that hydrocarbon and nuclear energy are bad and the world can rely solely of renewable energy.  The solar and wind based renewable energy are very much dependent  on the solar output and solar induced air wind streams.  Thus hydrocarbon fuels and nuclear fuels such as uranium and thorium are the only real sources of human development and prosperity.I took off one star from this book, however, for two reasons.  One reason is that Mr. Wrigley complacently accepts the anthropogenic global warming hoax involving carbon based fuels.  This false theory is propounded by politicized global elitists and has been refuted by genuine scientific data.The second reason is that Mr. Wrigley ignorantly assumes that hydrocarbon fuels come solely from degenerated plant and animal life.  This theory has been rigorously refuted by Thomas Gold in this book 
  
The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels







  
  
    .  Notice that other planets such Saturn"s moon Titan have extensive hydrocarbon fuel surface deposits without a history of plant and animal life.

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*by B***  on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2022*

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    A must read for Economists, Environmentalists and Climate Scientists
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014*

This is an incredibly eloquent and well organized view of the demographic changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom.  In many ways it is the "missing link" that economists - who hand-wave shamelessly about the demographic transition - need to read.  As do environmental and climate scientists who are concerned about energy and climate change.A masterly piece of scholarship that needs to be read by a broader scientific audience.

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