By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
So while as individuals, as consumers, as parents or as non-parents, we agonize and sermonize over our own and others’ lifestyle choices, the oil companies will keep lobbying, and the GDP and emissions lines will keep tracking upwards until we reach a point of reckoning when the size of the human population or how many children anyone has will be the last of our concerns.
By Andrew D. Hwang, The Conversation
This World Population Day, humans number in the vicinity of 7.5 to 7.6 billion individuals. Can the Earth support this many people indefinitely? What will happen if we do nothing to manage future population growth and total resource use?
By Erik Assadourian, Resilience
Focusing on some of the tactics of stabilizing population growth without offering an understanding of the urgency of the crisis we face undermines overall population efforts.
By Tom Butler, Musimbi Kanyoro, Resilience.org
Today is World Population Day (July 11). It’s time to talk about the size of the human family and the way we organize our economic activity (and not just today, on World Population Day), in language that is both honest and non-accusatory. It’s time to move beyond old arguments about whether population size or overconsumption is most culpable (both matter).
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
Little support for actual Malthusian policies can be found in scientific literature about the Anthropocene. Population growth is included as one element of the Great Acceleration, which it obviously is, but it isn’t identified as the main problem.
By William Ryerson, Population Institute, Population Media Center, and Foundation for Deep Ecology
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.
By Tom Butler, Foundation for Deep Ecology and the Population Media Institute
Introducing Overdevelopment, Overpopulation Overshoot.
By Alan Weisman, populationspeakout.org
The real star of this book is the photography.
By Herman Daly, The Daly News
A steady state economy is defined by a constant population and a constant stock of physical capital.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
New report overturns 20-year consensus on population estimates. New prediction is for a 70% chance of a rise from 7 billion to 11 billion by 21200.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Where do we think we live? Where do we actually live? These questions are of the utmost importance if we are to make the right decisions about our life on planet Earth.
By Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
Alex is joined by Cam Walker, Friends of Earth Australia, Dr. David A. Lavers, and author Alan Weisman.
