Alternative Titles for Energy Ambitions

The working title of the textbook, as students saw it in Winter quarter 2020, was Plotting a Path: Assessing and Accommodating Physical Limits. The students were given an opportunity to suggest book titles. Just for fun, this list captures a healthy sampling of what they came up with. The contents are roughly ordered from solid descrptive titles to more "fun" variants toward the end.

• Energy Consumption , Alternatives, Feasibility, and the Environment
• Energy and Humanity: Past, Present, and Future
• An Energy Turning Point: Fossil Fuels and their Alternatives
• Energy Usage: Paradigm Shift through the 20th and 21st century
• The Past, Present and Future of our Energy Needs
• Paving the Way to Resource Sustainability: Fossil Fuels and their Alternatives
• Energy, Environment, and Unsustainable Growth 
• Energy in a changing environment
• Energy: a comprehensive study of its limits and consequences
• Exploring Our Energy Resources
• 18 TW and Growing: Background and Direction From Here
• The Energy Trap 
• The Upshot of Earth and its Future
• A Dive into the Future of the Energy Sector
• An Uphill Battle of Replacing Fossil Fuels
• Physical limitations of energy in our finite environment
• Physical Impracticalities of Human Society
• We're Underestimating Our Limitations 
• Murphy's Law - Human Involvement with Energy and the Environment
• The Darkside of Energy
• The Energy Sector: What Stocks To and Not To Invest In
• Calm Down and Get to Working
• Energy and the Environment: A Speculation on the Death of Convenience
• Towards Sustainable Energy (How not to kill earth)
• How many years do we have?
• Let's Fix Earth and Maybe We Won't Have to Move Out
• No, We Shouldn't Just Move to Mars
• Physics Do What Physics Does 

The ultimate title became: Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Assessing and Adapting to Planetary Limits.