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Today’s Energy Predicament – A Look at Some Charts
Today’s Energy Predicament – A Look at Some Charts Today’s energy predicament is a strange situation that most modelers have never really considered. Let me explain some of the issues I see, using some charts. [1] It is probably not possible to reduce current energy consumption by 80% or more without dramatically reducing population. A glance […]
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 […]
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization In 2019, US population growth fell to +1.55m or +0.5%…this was due to a trifecta of declining births, lower immigration, and higher deaths than anticipated. However, as with everything “2020”, all three trends are only intensifying to blow away 2019. Births are falling faster and […]
The population problem problem
The population problem problem A while ago I wrote a post probing critically at the idea that human population levels were at the root of our contemporary environmental problems. It prompted various critical responses in turn, including this one from Alan Ware and Dave Gardner of World Population Balance that’s only just come to my attention. They published it […]
Slowing Growth the Problem, Asset Appreciation the Solution?
Slowing Growth the Problem, Asset Appreciation the Solution? The Problem:The Fed and major central banks believe they are fighting a deflationary spiral battling ongoing misses to their inflation targets. But in truth their misguided policies are contributing to a depopulation spiral. They are forcing low interest rates that only exacerbate overcapacity for a consumer base among whom growth is fast decelerating. The cheap money is […]
Population Bomb or Bomb the Population?
Population Bomb or Bomb the Population? There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, […]
Two Cheers for Population Decline
Two Cheers for Population Decline Eventual gradual population decline, provided it results from free choice, should be welcomed. Indeed, the greatest demographic challenge to human welfare is not low fertility and population aging, but rather the high fertility rates and rapid population growth still seen in Pakistan, much of the Middle East, and Africa. LONDON […]
Population wrapped up: a response to Jane O’Sullivan
Population wrapped up: a response to Jane O’Sullivan And so we come to Small Farm Future’s final blog post of 2018. Time for some seasonal goodwill and an offer of peace to all? Nah, time to settle old scores – in this case my debate with Jane O’Sullivan about population and poverty that’s been rumbling […]
Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 17: In Latin America, Soaring Population + Soaring Debt = “Brutal Justice”
Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 17: In Latin America, Soaring Population + Soaring Debt = “Brutal Justice” There are two ways of looking at the intersection of debt and population. One way says that if debt is rising population should also rise to allow future workers to pay for the retirement of today’s. More people thus […]
City Size & Structure Can Influence Influenza Epidemics, Scientists Say
City Size & Structure Can Influence Influenza Epidemics, Scientists Say New research is suggesting that the size and structure of the city you live in has the possibility of influencing epidemics. With flu season upon us, and everyone lining up to get the flu shot, researchers are saying an outbreak may be less in our […]
Debating population, poverty and development
Debating population, poverty and development Last week, Small Farm Future chalked up yet another first – the first vehement critique of one of our posts by a working academic with apparent expertise in the matter at hand. The post was this one about global population and its entailments that I published in June, and the […]
