Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation

• Timothy J. Garrett ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tim.garrett@utah.edu

  Affiliation Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9277-8773

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• Matheus Grasselli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2135-9410

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• Stephen Keen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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