Population – July 19
Citizens arrest
Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future
World Population Day Targets Men
Indonesia Copies China’s Planned Family Program
Astyk: Talking Population With the Old Men
Overshoot
Digesting Lovelock left and right
Lovelock’s main message is far more disturbing than anything he has said about nuclear energy, wind turbines or pesticides. That message is that we must put Gaia, the great climate and physical system of the Earth which sustains life, first before any other concern.
What to do? – June 11
Astyk: Pick up your hat (is it time yet?)
Choosing to live the good and sustainable life
Taking action in the face of collapse
Green future demands a radical shift in lifestyles for British
Lessons of history help the future
Our place on Earth – July 3
How many people have ever lived on Earth?
Human greed takes lion’s share of solar energy
Empty plates tomorrow
Population & environment – June 30
This planet ain’t big enough for the 6,500,000,000 of us
UN warns urban populations set to double
American Institute of Biological Sciences on population, environment
The carbon cycle: Implications for climate change and Congress (gov’t report)
Völkerwanderung
The relative stability of national and cultural boundaries in recent centuries could easily become a thing of the past as industrial civilization unravels. Planning for the deindustrial future needs to keep the possibility of mass migration in mind.
Global efforts to substitute for oil: Learning by doing ourselves in
Contemporary peak oil discourse overlooks the “own demand” of substitution. It takes a lot of oil to substitute for oil.
Peak oil – June 23
Dr. Albert Bartlett interview
Roger Bezdek keynote address
An inconvenient Swede
ASPO-USA Houston conference, Oct 17-20
FEASTA envisions Ireland’s energy futures
Arab News:
Complicated symmetry between oil and politics
Deep thinking – June 12
The Shockwave Rider
Monthly Review: A new war on the planet?
Ancient innovations for present conventions toward extinction
A depopulation explosion?
Predictions of mass dieoff have been one of the staples of peak oil narratives since the concept first surfaced. A look at the likely outcome of today’s mismatch between population and resources suggests a more nuanced view.
The blogs are alive – June 6
The present is pregnant with the future
Consumerism is dead- long live self-sufficiency!
Movie review: What a Way to Go (Life at the End of Empire)
Recreating “An Inconvenient Truth”s Manhattan flooding in Google Earth
From the blogs – May 26
how i became a peak oiler
To all the geeks, gamers, and non-attention payers
Denial
Awakening to the threat of excessive material consumption
