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Population Decline in Industrial Countries Requires Immigration?
Population Decline in Industrial Countries Requires Immigration? The United Nations projects that over the next 50 years, the population in the industrialized world (US-Europe-Japan) will DECLINE, not expand. The population is suffering from growing old and the youth are so burdened with taxes they are not getting married (marriages off by 50%) and are not having children. The decline […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 4
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 4 Blind Alleys and Techno-Fantasies The majority of proposals made by those who acknowledge limits fail on at least one of the previous criteria, and often several, if not all of them. Solution space is smaller than we typically think. The most common approach is to […]
Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb
Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb The master predicament that remains unaddressed In 1968, Paul Ehrlich released his ground-breaking book The Population Bomb, which awoke the national consciousness to the collision-course world population growth is on with our planet’s finite resources. His work was reinforced several years later by the Limits To Growth report issued by the Club of […]
Is the next threat too many ‘them’ in a resource-scarce future?
Is the next threat too many ‘them’ in a resource-scarce future? Defence planners are haunted by visions of angry, marginalised black people endangering corporate power when climate change topples their governments Last week, Israel hosted the 15th Annual Herzliya Conference, run by the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), a hawkish think tank specialising in national […]
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go
Resilient Urban Systems: Where We Stand Now and Where We Need to Go By the year 2050, close to seven billion people will be living in urbanized areas worldwide, which is almost double the number of urban inhabitants of today. Provision of adequate infrastructure service to this massive urban population in order to ensure their […]
Overview of Our Energy Modeling Problem
Overview of Our Energy Modeling Problem We live in a world with limits, yet our economy needs growth. How can we expect this scenario to play out? My view is that this problem will play out as a fairly near-term financial problem, with low oil prices leading to a fall in oil production. But not everyone […]
Only Less Will Do
Only Less Will Do When I’m not writing books or essays on environmental issues, or sleeping or eating, you’re likely to find me playing the violin. This has been an obsessive activity for me since I was a boy, and seems to deliver ever more satisfaction as time passes. Making and operating the little wooden box that […]
OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot
OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot William Ryerson’s introduction to the new book OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot. MOST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POPULATION begin with statistics—demographic data, fertility rates in this or that region, the latest reports on malnutrition, deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and so on. Such data, while useful, fails to generate mass concern about the fundamental issue affecting the future […]
Thought for food | Ensia
Thought for food | Ensia. How on Earth are we going to figure out how to feed the 9.5 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050? Perhaps by looking to the ultimate problem-solver — nature. On Jan. 19, the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation will launch a worldwide design challenge. Their goal? “To show […]
Hardline Australia, confused Scandinavia and tense Russia: the global immigration picture | World news | The Guardian
Hardline Australia, confused Scandinavia and tense Russia: the global immigration picture | World news | The Guardian. Few issues excite politicians’ and voters’ passions as much as immigration. For decades now, the world has been on the move: last year, according to the United Nations Population Fund, the number of people living outside their country of […]
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig. LONDON—Humans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year. Researchers in the US believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon […]
