Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The U. S. Social Security system is said to be the third rail of American politics; touch it and you die. Politically, that is. But there is another broader issue that seems to have become the third rail for world politics: overpopulation.
The impact of population and consumption is so profound that they may outpace any potential environmental benefits from industrial modernization and improving technologies.
Two things happened to me over this weekend before Christmas that jarred me a little. One was when an old friend said I sounded crazy, and the second was when I read the galley proof of Dmitry Orlov’s forthcoming book, Reinventing Collapse.
Fertility rate in USA on upswing
Humanity is the greatest challenge
Driving the human ecological footprint
Who Knew? Albert Bartlett interview
The crisis that dares not say its name
Debating holiday consumerism
Time to call it a wrap for wrapping paper?
Boomers discover that it’s easy being green
Census: America, the consumerist
My ancestral carbon footprint (England)
Charlie Hall’s balloon graph – no smooth transition to post-peak
Hostility to the notion of limits to growth
Bags packed for doomsday (NZ)
Women who find Ferrari drivers sexy contribute to global warming?
GM trots out ‘Vette with 620 horses
Emission law may hamper muscle cars
Europe proposes binding limits on auto emissions
Conventional wisdom holds that modern industrial agriculture is “more advanced” and thus by definition better than the alternatives. From an ecological standpoint, the reverse is true — and understanding the primitive, backward nature of industrial agriculture offers a model that helps make sense of other transitions facing us.
Panic the big threat to planet (Marcus Aurelius responds)
Brazil’s not peaking
Plenty of oil left in the global tank
Korean state oil company: PO theory flawed
A teacher friend called recently with a strange message. “I just found out that a lot of people don’t know what tree acorns grow on.”
Interview with Ronald Cooke (Cultural Economist)
Albert Bartlett interview (population)
Some convenient truths
2007: The Great Unraveling begins
Astyk: The best books about nearly everything
Monbiot: Leave fossil fuels in the ground
It’s too late to stop climate change, argues long-time journalist Ross Gelbspan — so what do we do now?
