Population – Nov 18
The world’s unsustainable population
Three’s a crowd
Population
Deep thought – Nov 2
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
Deep thought – Oct 30
Monbiot on The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Fat Man, the Population Bomb and the Green Revolution
Peak oil and famine
Peak oil – Oct 29
‘Oil production has peaked’ according to al-Huseini (former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco)
China to reach peak oil production as early as 2015 says leading scholar in Beijing
“Requiem for Fossil Fuels” performed in NYC
Kunstler: Assumptions
Downloadable peak oil presentation
Kenneth Deffeyes on feedback loops
ODAC news
Population, health & pollution – Oct 19
Are boys an endangered species?
Mother fears ‘stinky neighborhood’ caused son’s cancer
Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
China’s surplus of sons: Geopolitical time bomb
Harbor seals may help determine effect of eating toxic fish
Peak oil – Oct 17
Juan Cole: Oil peak or peak oil?
New Scientist reviews Crude Awakening
Oilwatch Monthly – October 2007
World energy and population: trends to 2100
Earth’s natural wealth: an audit
ODAC News
Population, 3rd World health, happiness
Japan eyes robots to support aging population
Family planning, population and global warming
Debunking third-world myths
American men and women unhappiest at ages 49 and 45
Of doomers, realists, powerdowners and fantasists
A response to the recent article on Stuart Staniford’s holiness, with musings about the "doomer’s" soul, as well as remarks on hope as an idol.
Population – Sept 27
Falling German birthrate dispels baby miracle myth
CNN:
Overpopulation could be people, planet problem
Geopolitics – Sept 23
Demographers: Islam and the West – not a clash of civilizations, but a honeymoon
America and Iran: the spark of war
The war is about oil but it’s not that simple
Deep thought – Sept 23
Sharon Astyk: Why I believe in individual action
Who said Marx wasn’t green?
Is it time for Americans to start cutting our baby emissions?
Dr. Albert Bartlett: arithmetic, population and energy
The retired Professor of Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder examines the arithmetic of steady growth, continued over modest periods of time, in a finite environment. These concepts are applied to populations and to fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal.
