Always seeking new blogs to read, since forums are defunct and etexts are of things published long ago, I found this insightful little excerpt: Few want to face the fact that the world is in a bad way, even less offer anything of value, just the usual new “green” initiative which will sustain life and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘overpopulation’
Interview: Pete Murphy, author of “Five Short Blasts”
One interesting fellow who commented on early articles on this blog is Pete Murphy, who worked for thirty years in manufacturing and engineering for a major chemical company and now writes in his spare time. What’s interesting is that his book, Five Short Blasts, take an economic approach to analyzing the population problem in the [...]
30 Minute Presentation on Overpopulation
Worth checking out: [Click here]
Overpopulation shows humanism fails
We’ve covered overpopulation and its role in ecocide, and in turn in throwing us into tyranny, before on this blog. It’s worth also mentioning that our dominant paradigm does not permit us to think of solutions that involve limiting the rights of people like us, which is why we are paralyzed on global warming because [...]
Overpopulation
In the news: JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably. Porritt said: “Population growth, [...]
Dr. Albert Bartlett Was Right
The 4,317,000 births in 2007 just edged out the figure for 1957, at the height of the baby boom. The increase reflected a slight rise in childbearing by women of all ages, including those in their 30s and 40s, and a record share of births to unmarried women. But in contrast with the culturally transforming [...]
James Lovelock on biochar, overpopulation
One of the most important green-related interviews went unnoticed by most: There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste – which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering – into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying [...]
Environmentalists are afraid to mention the real problem
It’s the great taboo of environmentalism: the size and growth of the human population. It has a profound impact on all life on Earth, yet for decades it has been conspicuously absent from public debate. Most natural scientists agree our growing numbers and our unchecked impact on the natural environment move us inexorably toward global [...]
Amount of natural habitat needed is underestimated
From the “no kidding, Sherlock” files: At present, most models divide the world into 50-kilometre grid squares, which gives a very coarse resolution. Changwan Seo of the University of Seoul, South Korea, and his colleagues tested four models at a variety of spatial scales, using existing data for rare plants such as Coulter pine. The [...]
Nanny State pursues ecorealists as "Terrorists"
Police were said to be investigating the eco-movement Earth First! which, they claimed, had supporters who believed that reducing the Earth’s population by four-fifths would help protect the planet. The National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit was concerned that a lone maverick might attempt a terrorist attack. It had also warned several companies they were being [...]
