Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I was involved in one of those periodic discussions that spring up about The Limits To Growth recently and found myself wondering, not for the first time, if other people have read a completely different version of the book to the one I possess.
If abortion were put into the context of the long history of human attempts to avoid starvation by regulating population growth, we might come to a different conclusion about what “pro-life” really means.
Monbiot: Population growth pales against greed of the rich
The truth everyone knows, but no one says
Background on population and sustainability
Comparative planetology: interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Does the future need a legal guardian?
Jared Diamond: What’s your consumption factor?
Dr. Albert Bartlett in depth (transcript)
Fertility rate in USA on upswing
Humanity is the greatest challenge
Driving the human ecological footprint
Who Knew? Albert Bartlett interview
The crisis that dares not say its name
The U. S. Social Security system is said to be the third rail of American politics; touch it and you die. Politically, that is. But there is another broader issue that seems to have become the third rail for world politics: overpopulation.
The impact of population and consumption is so profound that they may outpace any potential environmental benefits from industrial modernization and improving technologies.
Interview with Ronald Cooke (Cultural Economist)
Albert Bartlett interview (population)
Some convenient truths
2007: The Great Unraveling begins
Astyk: The best books about nearly everything
Monbiot: Leave fossil fuels in the ground
Perennial crops: The garden that keeps giving
Localise and go organic to avert post-peak famine – Heinberg
Biofuel and diet sow seeds of farm crunch (Malthus revisited)
Down on the farm with your sleeves rolled up
Some plants you should consider growing
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
The world’s expected carrying capacity in a post industrial agrarian society
Saving the ecosystems of Middle Earth
John Michael Greer: the politics of transition
Monbiot on The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Fat Man, the Population Bomb and the Green Revolution
Peak oil and famine
