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Maybe It’s Time to Offend a Few Folks

 Speaking out about human overpopulation is not an easy thing, as I have been told that people get offended.

Making Movies - Apr 19

•Mother: Caring for 7 Billion - Teaser - Free Streaming of Director's Cut •Do the Math Documentary Premieres on Earth Night, April 21 •Growing Cities Movie

Is America's fertility decline a real problem?

Chances are you already have a strong opinion on this subject. There’s a great deal of noise, mostly but not wholly on the American right about the dangers of fertility decline. Jonathan Last’s book _What To Expect When No One is Expecting_ and Ross Douthat’s recent lament …

Can we avoid a collapse?  

"Population Bomb" author & Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich on his Royal Society Paper "Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?" From Tasmania, forest expert Dr. David Bowman: wild fires drive more global warming. Economist John Talberth suing the U.S. …

Deep thought - Jan 17

•Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? •Global warming, peak oil, economic chaos •The Healing Power Of Beauty In A Bleak World •Waiting for the punchline •Moral case for sustainability more effective than economic? •Pandora's Boxes

Peak Philosophy: The economic contraction narrative needs facts, not theory

These days, people are maxed out on every level trying to get through life as everything gets more tedious, expensive, and uncertain. The onslaught of “glittering generalities” and opinionated political rhetoric coming from popular media and paid advertising on “both” …

The peak oil crisis: descent into chaos

There is a growing disconnect between forecasts of prodigious amounts of oil coming out of the Middle East in coming decades and what is likely to happen in the region.

The Populations Problem

The population problem should be considered from the point of view of all populations — populations of both humans and their artifacts (cars, houses, livestock, cell phones, etc.) — in short, populations of all “dissipative structures” engendered, bred, or built by humans.

Growthbusters the movie (review)

Growthbusters is the inspiring story of Dave Gardner’s efforts to challenge conservative Colorado Springs’ failed growth promotion policies. The film begins by focusing on the insanity of local councils cutting essential public services to “jump start” growth. However it also takes a broader …

Mike Freedman on his new film Critical Mass

Unsung Films watched Mike Freedman’s Critical Mass this year when it screened at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy. On approaching the filmmaker with a short review of his documentary, we ended up with a great deal more: a 3000-word interview taking readers deep into the story of how …

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