Deep thought – Feb 18
Missing: the ‘right’ babies
Hierarchy is the result of dependency
Entropy is the problem, not energy
Population
Deep thought – Feb 15
Infrastructure for the future we want
Peak oil movement in Israel
Sustainability implications of peak population?
Replacing ourselves
Hierarchy must grow, and is therefore unsustainable
Deep thought – Feb 5
I am human, I’m American, and I’m an addict…
The Tata Nano strikes back – Does Jeavons’ Paradox apply to productivity, too?
Jeffersonian agrarianism and the question of slavery
A material world
On Monbiot’s population comments
The limits to scenario planning
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.
Abortion and the Earth
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.
Population – Jan 30
Monbiot: Population growth pales against greed of the rich
The truth everyone knows, but no one says
Background on population and sustainability
Deep thought – Jan 9
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)
Population, consumption drive global climate change and environmental degradation
The impact of population and consumption is so profound that they may outpace any potential environmental benefits from industrial modernization and improving technologies.
Population – Dec 24
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 third rail of world politics
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.
Deep thought – Dec 18
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
Food & agriculture – Nov 26
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
