> Hotelling's Rule [2], given recent rises in the price of fossil fuel. Fair points. Some of the economic language is a bit hard for me to follow, but I always

> Hotelling's Rule [2], given recent rises in the price of fossil fuel. Fair points. Some of the economic language is a bit hard for me to follow, but I always took Hotelling as an explanation for some perverse incentives not explainable within, but adjacent to, systems theory. Weird ones like how the demand for killing nearly extinct species goes up because mega-rich crazies will pay a fortune at black-market restaurants to eat the last one. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling's_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling's_rule