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Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades” “Humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we’re sawing off.” On New Year’s Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS‘ Scott Pelley on the program “60 Minutes” to discuss the global mass extinction crisis. Spoiler: no one had any good news. Tony Barnosky, a Stanford […]

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Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp

  Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood. The research published […]

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Famines as Military Weapons: Is Europe in Danger?

Famines as Military Weapons: Is Europe in Danger?  A Dutch girl photographed at the time of the “hongerwinter”, the famine that hit The Netherlands in 1945, during WW2.  In the West, we tend to think of famines as events of the remote past that will never return, a view typified by Steven Pinker in his […]

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Bodhi Paul Chefurka: Carrying capacity, overshoot and sustainability

Bodhi Paul Chefurka: Carrying capacity, overshoot and sustainability *** Ever since the writing of Thomas Malthus in the early 1800s, and especially since Paul Ehrlich’s publication of “The Population Bomb”  in 1968, there has been a lot of learned skull-scratching over what the sustainable human population of Planet Earth might “really” be over the long haul. […]

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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, […]

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Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist

Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist Paul Ehrlich writes in Nature Climate Change that Francis is wrong to fight climate change without also addressing the strain from population growth on resources One of America’s leading scientists has dismissed as “raving nonsense” the pope’s call for action on climate […]

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How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions

How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions STANFORD – There is no doubt that Earth is undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its history – the first since the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. According to one recent study, species are going extinct between ten and several thousand times faster than they […]

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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 […]

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Twenty-Three Geniuses

Twenty-Three Geniuses If there is a Pulitzer Booby Prize for stupidity, waste no time in awarding it to The New York Times’ Monday feature, The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion. The former “newspaper of record” wants us to assume now that the sky’s the limit for human activity on the planet earth. Problemo cancelled. The article and […]

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