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Do we have room for a billion Americans?
Do we have room for a billion Americans? As I was reading Matthew Yglesias’ piece “The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans,” the Soviet-era designation of Mother Heroine, initiated by Joseph Stalin in 1944, came to mind. Stalin and subsequent Soviet leaders gave Mother Heroine medals to mothers who bore and raised 10 or more children. Lesser […]
Fighting Overpopulation: Ten methods to exterminate most of humankind
Fighting Overpopulation: Ten methods to exterminate most of humankind First of all, a disclaimer: I am not advocating the extermination of anyone! This post is just an attempt of mine to place myself in the boots of the bad guys who could think of doing such a thing and examine how they could do it. […]
Population
Population “Neo-Malthusian promotion of family planning as the solution to hunger, conflict, and poverty has contributed to destructive population control approaches, that are targeted most often at poor, racialized women.” While often thought of as a given reality, definitions of population are highly political. They are most often negatively associated with notions of “overpopulation” or […]
So It Turns Out ‘Overpopulation’ Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth
So It Turns Out ‘Overpopulation’ Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth A new study published in the Lancet confirms what people like myself have been saying over and over again for years: that the human population is unlikely to get much bigger than it is right now, and will in fact begin declining in the latter half of this century as […]
Overpopulation, Nature’s Revenge, & Pandemic
Overpopulation, Nature’s Revenge, & Pandemic Don’t Dismiss the Design Option Has the planet simply had enough of people? Are there are too many of us, and this pandemic is the paramount example? It’s easy to let our minds meander this way, but we have likely had more serious pandemics (Let’s see this one reach its […]
Frank Kaminski reviews two peak oil documentaries from 2008
Frank Kaminski reviews two peak oil documentaries from 2008 BLIND SPOT: Peak Oil and the Coming Global Crisis A Documentary Directed, Written, Photographed, and Edited by Adolfo Doring–1 hour, 26 minutes and FUEL A Documentary Directed and Narrated by Josh Tickell–1 hour, 52 minutes These two documentaries on the world oil crisis came out in 2008, […]
Making It To The 4th Second
Prince Ea Making It To The 4th Second A hard-hitting delivery of the predicament humanity faces Our work here at PeakProsperity.com focuses on raising awareness of the serious challenges facing humanity as we continue to live well beyond our economic, energetic and ecological means. Through the Three Es framework presented in The Crash Course, we’ve […]
Bill Ryerson — Dealing With The Elephant In The Room: Overpopulation
PODCAST Bill Ryerson — Dealing With The Elephant In The Room: Overpopulation Strategies for dealing with this massive, third-rail issue Worldwide, three new humans are born every second. Every day, 225,000 more mouths are added to the global dinner table. That adds up to 80 million new people per year — the population equivalent of […]
Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’
Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’ Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge The toxification of the planet with synthetic chemicals may be more dangerous to people and wildlife than climate change, […]
Overpopulation is a Problem, but Capitalist Overdevelopment is a Bigger Problem
Overpopulation is a Problem, but Capitalist Overdevelopment is a Bigger Problem Ed. note: This is a response by Richard Smith to Saral Sarkar’s commentary on Richard’s original article Climate Crisis and Managed Deindustrialization: Debating Alternatives published on Resilience.org here. Saral misreads my statement. He says “Richard writes, “Capitalism, not population is the main driver of planetary ecological collapse … […]
