Population – Dec 24
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
Overshoot
The third rail of world politics
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.
Population, consumption drive global climate change and environmental degradation
The impact of population and consumption is so profound that they may outpace any potential environmental benefits from industrial modernization and improving technologies.
Deep thought – Dec 20
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)
Agriculture: the price of adaptation
It’s becoming increasingly recognized that today’s industrial agriculture will stop being viable once cheap abundant fossil fuel becomes a thing of the past. Less often recognized are adaptations already taking place that will allow more sustainable agricultural systems to take its place – but at a price.
What will we eat as the oil runs out?
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.
Water – Nov 28
From sewage, water for drinking
The (benign) water cops are here
Planetary check-up starts with oceans
Tom Engelhardt: We face worldwide drought with no contingency plan
Food & agriculture – Nov 26
Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving
Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine – Heinberg
Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch (Malthus revisited)
Down on the farm with your sleeves rolled up
Some plants you should consider growing
Grim visions – Nov 21
Endings aren’t always happy
The freezing point of industrial society
Black Friday: Why this one is especially dark
Population – Nov 18
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
Deep thought – Nov 11
From state-based sovereignty towards bright green governance
World energy to 2050: a half century of decline
Sharon Astyk: Scared? Duh.
Deep thought – Nov 6
Hitting the nail on the head with the hammer…of fear
Film Review- What a Way to Go
The switch has been flipped
Are you on the rebound? (Jevons effect)
