Population – April 17
– Lester Brown: Smart planning for the global family
– The Anti-Immigration Crusader
– The Hypocrisy of Hate: Nativists and Environmentalism
Population
Visions of the Afterlight
Reviews of three novels set in the wake of the oil age:
– Player One by Douglas Coupland
– Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
– Afterlight by Alex Scarrow.
Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return – Climate Change, Pollution, Accidents, Environmental Decline, and Natural Disasters
The current tragic events in Japan bring an extra poignancy to this, the final excerpt from Chapter 3 of Richard Heinberg’s new book The End of Growth.
The peak oil crisis: the 3rd transition
Taken together, the decline and eventual near cessation of fossil fuel production and that of many other minerals, disruption in global weather patterns, and the growing food and water scarcity will constitute the third great transition.
Peak oil, climate change, political turmoil: the lesson from Egypt
Were the Egyptian people that bravely took to the streets to overthrow a tyrannical regime taking part in the world’s first peak oil revolution?
Population – Feb 13
– Special National Geographic Series: 7 Billion
– A world too full of people – let’s invest in family planning
– Biology’s Bomb: Graphing ‘Explosive’ Population Growth in Cold War Textbooks
Global population speak out
We do have to talk about population – we have to talk about it honestly and clearly, and with an eye to the real complexities of the issue. We have to put it on the table and stop being afraid of it. We have to have these conversations even when they are difficult, personal, emotional and when they are hard.
Deep thought – Jan 20
-The Ultimate Oxymoron: Industrial Civilization And Mental Health
– Nicole Foss: We Need Freedom of Action To Confront Peak Oil (video)
– La Niña as Black Swan – Energy, Food Prices, and Chinese Economy Among Likely Casualites
– The Guardian: The population explosion
– Jerome a Paris: Neo-feudalism and neo-nihilism
Population: one planet, too many people? (report)
Population: One planet, too many people? is the first report of its kind by the engineering profession. Unless the engineering solutions highlighted in the report are urgently implemented then the projected 2.5 billion more people on earth by the end of this Century (currently there is 6.9 billion) will crush the earth’s resources.
Rekenkunde, Bevolking en Energie
Translation into Dutch of a talk by Dr. Albert Bartlett on population.
From condoms to biochar, let’s get moving – Oct 26
– How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place
– After 2 years of eco-living, what works and what doesn’t
– New book on biochar by Albert Bates
– Growing ‘lots of delicious food for the least possible work’
– Eco villages are your best investment
An economic irony for the ages
Our psychological health on the issue of growth warrants some serious analysis, and maybe even some therapy.
