文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Superlinear growth and the fossil fuel energy sustainability dilemma: Evidence from six continents

作者：Tao, Yong[1];Lin, Li[1,2,3];Wang, Hanjie[1];Hou, Chen[4]

机构：[1]Southwest Univ, Coll Econ & Management, Chongqing 400715, Peoples R China;[2]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[3]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Res Inst Financial Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[4]Missouri Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Biol Sci, Rolla, MO 65409 USA

年份：2023

卷号：66

起止页码：39

外文期刊名：STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000986120600001)】；

基金：Yong Tao was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. SWU2109209), the Social Science Planning Project of Chongqing (Grant No. 2019PY40), the Innovation Research 2035 Pilot Plan of Southwest University (Grant No. SWUPi-lotPlan026), and the National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21ZDA062 and Grant No. 20AZD080). Li Lin was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71771086).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Non-cooperative game; Emergence of technology; Superlinear growth; Energy sustainability; Fossil fuel; Circular economy strategy

摘要：This study investigates lessons in energy efficiency and sustainability that human societies can learn from insect colonies that exhibit altruistic cooperation. Distinguishing from the altruism-cooperation in eusocial insects, modern market-economy institutions are established based on the human nature of self-interest and a coordi-nated form of a non-cooperative game. Here, we employ a theoretical model to show that a non-cooperative game among heterogeneous agents causes the emergence of a technology, which in turn leads to a superlinear scaling relationship between the GDP and the population size, in good agreement with the data collected from 106 countries in seven regions of the world. However, although the emergence of technology triggers the superlinear growth of the GDP, our study finds a superlinear relationship between the fossil fuel energy con-sumption and the population size in six continents, which suggests that past technological progress in fact fails in pursuing a sustainable manner for energy usage. From a sustainability perspective, the preservation of natural resources is a goal of Circular Economy strategy. Thus, the results of our study call for an urgent enhancement of the efficiency of energy usage to avoid the potential collapse of sustainability.