Earth Overshoot Day: We’ve used up Nature’s Resource Budget for the Year Earlier than Ever Before
As you read this, humankind has used up nature’s budget for the year.
Overshoot
The Twilight of the Great Burning: What Comes Next?
Instead of starting from the perspective that the crises are paralyzing and we are “done for,” let’s try something else.
OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot
In reality, every discussion about population involves people, the world that our children and grandchildren will live to see and the health of the planet that supports all life.
Lord Man Parable
Introducing Overdevelopment, Overpopulation Overshoot.
William Catton’s warning
William Catton Jr. died last month at age 88. His book, "Overshoot," may stand as the central text of the 20th century about the ecological fate of humankind. The book represents a missed opportunity in that so few people were able to hear what Catton had to say in 1980, and so few want to hear it now–even as the headlines are filled with the very precursors of the bottleneck he laments in his last major piece of writing.
Thanks, Bill.
I didn’t read Overshoot until around 1999; when I did, it made an enormous impression. My book The Party’s Over owed a great deal to it
Alan Weisman reviews Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot
The real star of this book is the photography.
As Night Closes In
I was saddened to learn a few days ago, via a phone call from a fellow author, that William R. Catton Jr. died early last month, just short of his 89th birthday.
Uncharted Territory for a System in Overshoot
We are in uncharted territory with the Ebola virus disease (EVD). This pandemic signifies a turning point for society in response to peak oil, highlighting the problem of globalization for a planet of 7 billion people.
Over the Climate Cliff
Alex is joined by Cam Walker, Friends of Earth Australia, Dr. David A. Lavers, and author Alan Weisman.
Is “the environment” now obsolete?
If we are indeed already in the Anthropocene, then "the environment" cannot be "out there." The advent of the Anthropocene has wiped out the distinction between human history and natural history.
We Can Feed the World / No We Can’t / No We Won’t
There are, and have been for a few decades now, competing narratives about food, hunger, and population.
