Protecting Creation – Apr 27
Vatican issues new green message for world’s Catholics
Timeline: The frightening future of Earth
E.O.Wilson: Acting now to save life on Earth
The Limits to Lakoff (progressivism vs limits to growth)
Overshoot
Our world is finite: Is this a problem?
We all know the world is finite. We also know that growth is central to our way of life. At some point, growth in resource utilization must collide with the fact that the world is finite. We are now reaching that point. (Includes discussion questions)
Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
American writer and humorist Kurt Vonnegut has died at age 84. About energy he wrote, “We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.”
Water – Apr 5
Global forecast is ‘mostly dry’
An arid West no longer waits for rain
Drugs are in the water. Does it matter?
Looking beyond – Apr 5
JM Greer: The shadow of our downfall
Sharon Astyk: World War II as metaphor
The limits of eco-localism: Scale, strategy, socialism
Water – Apr 3
Mike Davis: Denial in the desert
Drought means no palms for Palm Sunday
Asia’s river systems face collapse
Malaysia makes rainwater collection mandatory for big roofs
Population – March 25
Starting from where you are – Sharon Astyk on having four children
The Nation: Europeans do it better
Population – March 17
Europeans do it better: learning to live with population decline
World’s population of elderly exploding
World population may reach 9.2 billion by 2050
The times they are a’changing
Innovation in hard times?
Do environmentalists conspire against their own interests?
Sharon Astyk: On market failure
Lovelock: ‘We should be scared stiff’
Scientists need to confront economists about peak oil
Letter published in Nature from co-founder of Beyond Oil South Australia, responding to recent Thats Oil Folks article.
Population – March 10
Fact or fiction?: living people outnumber the dead
The motherhood experiment
Medical, social problems cause of high death rate in Russia – Putin
Climate – March 5
UK plans to cut CO2 doomed – scientists
Hurricane heat
India’s ‘wet desert’ hit by climate change
WaPo talks collapse: Climate-change precipice
