{"id":16739,"date":"2016-01-20T14:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16739"},"modified":"2016-01-20T14:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:12:52","slug":"why-did-everyone-stop-talking-about-population-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16739","title":{"rendered":"Why did everyone stop talking about Population &#038; Immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Why did everyone stop talking about Population &amp; Immigration?\" href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2016\/why-are-population-immigration-taboo-topics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why did everyone stop talking about Population &amp; Immigration?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><em>[ I tried to summarize the 20 top reasons why population growth was abandoned by environmental groups and received little coverage in the news media the past 40 years.\u00a0 I highly recommend reading Beck and Kolankiewicz (2000) \u201cThe Environmental Movement\u2019s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization\u201d and Alan Weisman\u2019s \u201cCountdown: Our last, Best hope for a future on Earth?\u201d.\u00a0 Alice Friedemann\u00a0 www.energyskeptic.com ]<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u201c<em>There is no need to decide whether to stop the population increase or not. There is no need to decide whether the population will be lowered or not. It will, it will! The only thing mankind has to decide is whether to let population decline be done in the old inhumane method that nature has always used, or to invent a new humane method of our own<\/em>.\u201d Isaac Asimov, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Unlooked for but swift, we have come on like a swarm of locusts: a wide, thick, darkling cloud settling down like living snowflakes, smothering every stalk, every leaf, eating away every scrap of green down to raw, bare, wasting earth\u2026There are too many men for Earth to harbor. At nearly seven billion we have overshot Earth\u2019s carrying capacity<\/em>\u201d. Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Population-world-in-billions.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4206\" src=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Population-world-in-billions.bmp\" alt=\"Population world in billions\" width=\"478\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><strong>1) The Consumption of Wealthy Nations is the problem. Not the Poor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s both, obviously.\u00a0 Not one or the other.\u00a0 The famous equation to describe this is I = P x A x T, which translates to Human Impact (<b>I<\/b>) on the environment =\u00a0 (P)opulation times (A)ffluence times (T)echnology.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly true that wealth nations consume too much. The United States uses\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2013\/300-million-americans-use-7-billion-tons-of-minerals-a-year\/\">7 billion tons of minerals a year.<\/a>\u00a0Per capita that\u2019s 47,769 pounds per American: 1400 pounds of copper, 9 tons of phosphate rock, 300 tons of coal, 16 tons of iron ore, 700 tons of stone, sand, and gravel, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>But the poor also have a huge effect on the environment:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did everyone stop talking about Population &amp; Immigration? [ I tried to summarize the 20 top reasons why population growth was abandoned by environmental groups and received little coverage in the news media the past 40 years.\u00a0 I highly recommend reading Beck and Kolankiewicz (2000) \u201cThe Environmental Movement\u2019s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11836,1499,162,11859,1537,1371,1160,868],"class_list":["post-16739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-carrying-capacity","tag-consumption","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-immigration","tag-population","tag-population-growth","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16740,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions\/16740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}