Deep thought – May 16
A leftist critique of Transition Towns – review by Rob Hopkins
Malthus, the false prophet
Are there just too many people in the world?
Population
The food system – May 15
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel’s Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Climate – May 14
Herman Daly: Moving climate policy from ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Climate worries wealthy, polluting nations least
What condoms have to do with climate change
Deep thought – May 10
Interview with Mark Anielski: The Economics of Happiness
Return of the population timebomb
Consumerism: curses and causes
Population – May 8
C.I.A. chief lists population as a top concern
Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise
The Population Bomb revisited
More choice for women means more sustainability
Food & agriculture – Apr 21
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
China population – Mar 12
One-child policy ‘pays off’ for GHG emissions
China mulls change to one-child policy
Deep thought – Mar 8
The New Green Deal of 2009
Can we survive?
Norman Church: The elephant in the room
Personal survival in a world gone mad
The elephant in the room
The UK has until recently been one of the most resilient economies in the world. Over the last 100 years, it has survived two world wars, staged spectacular economic recoveries, been blessed with energy resources, and evolved from manufacturer to the world into a service economy. But the position in which it now finds itself looks bleaker.
Food security: Moving towards the precipice?
“The bottom line is that China and the world are accelerating in the fog toward a precipice.” (Interview of ecologist Paul Ehrlich.)
Food & agriculture – Feb 27
The footprint of a cheeseburger
FT: Food and the spectre of Malthus
‘Panic’ wheat buying across the US
Breadbasket inflation
U.S. and Canada – Feb 20
US urged to fight fuel demand with cost
Oil sands ‘most destructive project on earth’
Alberta premier Ed Stelmach strikes back
Absence of climate issue in primaries
Population growth and depleting resources…
U.S. work force moves to green-collar jobs
Roubini: Economy risks the mother of all meltdowns
