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Population growth and food: A systems perspective
Population growth and food: A systems perspective In this age of the Anthropocene, it is necessary to look inward as well as outwards to find systemic solutions. People may or may not be “a plague on earth” as David Attenborough has stated, but we are without doubt the dominant force on this planet. Some introspection […]
Population: what’s the problem?
Population: what’s the problem? Apologies for the clickbait-y title. My question isn’t a rhetorical one intended to suggest that human population levels aren’t a problem. I don’t doubt they are. But it seems to me much less clear than a lot of people seem to think exactly what kind of problem they are, and what […]
“Will The Real Global Economy Please Stand Up”
“Will The Real Global Economy Please Stand Up” To say I’ve become skeptical of “markets” and their movements is probably an understatement. However, rather than waste more time trying to make sense of these skewed markets, I believe real economic activity is more accurately represented by changing populations and their energy consumption. So today, we’ll play a little […]
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 […]
Why Agriculture and Forestry Are Dead or Obsolete the Way They Are Practiced Nowadays
Why Agriculture and Forestry Are Dead or Obsolete the Way They Are Practiced Nowadays ATTENTION: SOIL AGRICULTURE INCLUDING FORESTRY, AS NOW PRACTICED, IS DEAD OR OBSOLETE… Dead if we keep doing it with our current dependency on mined finite-supply mineral fertilizers and obsolete if we hope to maintain even the current population… NO MATTER WHETHER […]
Trade Wars Just Beginning…The War Is a Fight Over an Indefinitely Shrinking Pie
Trade Wars Just Beginning…The War Is a Fight Over an Indefinitely Shrinking Pie From a growth perspective, it doesn’t matter if the world is 7.5 million or 7.5 billion persons…it only matters how many more there are from one year to the next. Economic growth (or the ability to consume more…not produce more) is about the […]
Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis
Exposing Africa’s Manmade Water Crisis The imminent shutdown of Cape Town’s piped water network should serve as a wake-up call for all of Africa to overhaul urban water-management systems. Unfortunately, like Africa’s water resources themselves, Cape Town’s crisis seems likely to be wasted. About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened […]
Who will drink the last glass of water in Cape Town?
Who will drink the last glass of water in Cape Town? Because Cape Town sits between picturesque beaches and mountains, it is a favored travel destination. And, its weather during the summer is described as “almost too perfect.” That’s in part because it rains very little in the summer in this second most populous city […]
The broken glass: some thoughts on ‘Population 10 Billion’
The broken glass: some thoughts on ‘Population 10 Billion’ Danny Dorling’s book Population 10 Billion1 has been sitting in the in-tray of the Small Farm Future review department (along with a whole load of other books) for a couple of years now. I’ve been on their case about it, but until now I’ve had nothing […]
For Saving the Earth We Need to Tell the Whole Truth — an eco-socialist’s response to Richard Smith
For Saving the Earth We Need to Tell the Whole Truth — an eco-socialist’s response to Richard Smith In his article,1 Richard calls upon his readers to “change the conversation”. He asks, “What are your thoughts?” He says, if we don’t “come up with a viable alternative, our goose is cooked.” I fully agree. So […]
The End is Near…Depopulation is Out of Control…So Buy Stocks (Seriously)
The End is Near…Depopulation is Out of Control…So Buy Stocks (Seriously) The world economy is premised on a ludicrous idea. That Asia, then India, and then Africa will continue to drive economic growth. So as not to turn this article into a book, lets consider this idea focusing on East Asia consisting of China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, and minor others. […]
Is Population Decline Catastrophic?
Is Population Decline Catastrophic? In the 1970’s we heard the earth was going to get so crowded we’d be falling off. Now the panickers have flipped to population decline. They were wrong in the 70’s, so are they wrong again? Is a declining population catastrophic? Countries from Germany to Japan are investing in mass immigration […]
