Assuming that political system is a resource-distribution mechanism, the author examines the possible effects of the predicted new age of scarcity on the system built on the assumption of continuing abundance of both energy and resource stocks. He does this by examining generally the relationship between the carrying-capacity (along a scarcity and abundance continuum) and the value-system (along a steady-state and growth-oriented continuum), and showing the possible outcomes of the interaction between the two.
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