Population, depletion, planet
Greens need to grasp the nettle: aren’t there just too many people?
Interview with Professor Albert Bartlett
Fishery collapse in the North Sea
Planet in Peril coming to CNN in October
Overshoot
Can ecologists save the ecosphere?
Whenever ecologists gather, we might expect them to be screaming at the top of their lungs (or at least doing what passes for this in academic circles) about the imminent peril in which we humans find ourselves. But at a recent annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), those figurative screams could only be rated as somewhere between muffled and nonexistent.
Peak everything
Introduction to Heinberg’s new book Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. (Excerpts)
Museletter #185: Peak Everything
This issue is an edited version of the Introduction to Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines.This book is not an introduction to the subject of Peak Oil; …Instead it addresses the social and historical context in which the event is occurring, and explores how we can reorganize our thinking and action in several critical areas in order to better navigate this perilous time.
Deep thought – Aug 29
David Korten: Living wealth- better than money
Rise and fall of sea levels and civilisations
Albert Bartlett on population, energy and the exponential function
The end of civilization and the extinction of humanity
Peak oil spells the end of civilization. Runaway greenhouse spells the end of humanity. This is my latest attempt at standup tragedy, to steal a line from Derrick Jensen.
(Talk by a conservation biologist to an August 17 conference of students of public health.)
Deep thought – Aug 28
Sharon Astyk: Diversify, diversify, diversify
The Plan (a new human culture)
The Economist: Problems of aging, shrinking population
Peak oil – Aug 22
Matthew Simmons interview: All the canaries have stopped singing
The social effects of peak oil
Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes a closer look at Escape from Suburbia
Jay Hanson: Can American government survive “peak oil”?
Gregory Green, director of Escape from Suburbia
How to push the oil levers in the wrong direction
If crude oil is becoming scarce, the first reaction often is, “where can we find more of it?”
Peak phosphorus – the bottom line
What is new and controversial in the article is the assertion that we have passed the point of “Peak phosphorus” – the point of maximum production and consumption of phosphorus. This would mean that over time phosphorus will become more difficult to obtain, and more expensive. This would be a major problem for society, since without sufficient supplies of phosphorus we will have difficulty feeding ourselves.
Peak phosphorus
Phosphorus is one of the three major nutrients required for agriculture. Applying Hubbert analysis reveals that production of phosphates probably reached a world peak in 1989.
Peak phosphorus: readings
Background on the phosphorus problem and possible responses.
