“The world could easily support 20 billion to 30 billion people.”
“The world’s entire population, with 1,000 square feet of living space each, could fit into Texas.”
It’s one thing to see statements like these in online forums and blog comments, quite another when they appear in the New York Times. The article, now a couple [...]
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science failure at NYT
Posted in communication, population, sustainability on July 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
LES: life enhancing sensemaking
Posted in communication, sensemaking, wicked problems, tagged definition, gsm, life enhancing, sensemaking on June 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Over here, George Mobus poses an excellent question about the philosophical aspects of sensemaking and its operational definition. (See below for where this all is coming from.) I think he provides an excellent informal definition with this:
Sensemaking … is about understanding reality sufficiently well that one feels comfortable making statements about the future. [...]
environmental news heats up
Posted in communication, economy, global warming, growth, human rights, population, sustainability on March 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Bangkok round of climate talks begins on Monday so I took a look at how climate change was fairing in the mainstream media. Here are some of the AP and AFP articles in just the last five days:
Warming affects trees, streams in West
Experts seek answers on water footprint
Climate change now a UN human [...]
hooked on growth, the movie
Posted in communication, global warming, growth, politics, population, sustainability on March 12, 2008 | 10 Comments »
As founder and owner of Visions West, Dave Gardner has written/produced/directed hundreds of corporate film and video projects for more than a dozen Fortune 100 and over 30 Forbes 500 companies over the last 25 years.
Apparently that’s not enough:
In November 2006 Gardner created Citizen-Powered Media, a Colorado non-profit that received 501(c)3 status from the [...]
end the population movement?
Posted in communication, feminism, global warming, growth, politics, population, sustainability on March 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This is a footnote to an earlier post.
Adam Werbach, famous for being the youngest president of the Sierra Club and then working to green Wal-Mart, is now CEO of Act Now which “helps businesses position themselves to capture the rapidly emerging green customer base; implement operational efficiencies that save natural resources and money; and use [...]
don’t read this post: misogyny, the fairness doctrine, and free speech
Posted in communication, politics on January 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I wish I had more skill in writing about human rights, one of the categories I use to track posts on this blog. The idea of human rights — how we come by them and how they are motivated — is complex, nuanced, and highly emotional, attributes that make it a difficult subject, [...]
population growth gets some mainstream attention
Posted in biodiversity, communication, consumerism, consumption, economy, energy, family planning, global warming, growth, human rights, politics, population, sustainability on November 6, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Climate change is now in the news every day and, with the recent rise in oil prices, peak oil appears frequently too. No one denies these issues are influenced by the large and fast growing economies of China and India in conjunction with the massive economies of the USA and the EU. It’s now [...]
don’t rebuild the I35 bridge
Posted in communication, consumption, economy, energy, global warming, growth, population, sustainability on August 9, 2007 | 7 Comments »
TwinCities.com reports:
The Minnesota Department of Transportation wants to build a 10-lane, pedestrian-accessible Interstate 35W bridge that will be corrosion-hearty for at least 100 years to replace the bridge that collapsed last week.
It’s not going to be cheap:
The new bridge’s design will largely determine the cost, and although the federal government has pledged $250 million, Mahmoud [...]
improving ScienceBlogs
Posted in blogging, communication, science on July 28, 2007 | 14 Comments »
There’s some sort of conversation going on among the SciBlings. I noticed a recent uptick in people in Seed’s ScienceBlogs family viewing this post and this one about ScienceBlogs. The link that is bringing them here is not public, so I suppose it is some kind of internal blog or message board which [...]
lies, damn lies, and graphs
Posted in communication, economy, politics on July 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I put a lot effort into create charts and graphs that are honest visual representations of real data. This is another approach.
tantalizing taboo topics
Posted in communication, human rights, humanism, politics on July 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Some of today’s ardent atheists may not remember when the religious right successfully made humanism a dirty word back in the 1980’s along with that other now taboo term liberal. Socialism had already been a dirty word for a couple of decades, so in the public square the notions of free market capitalism, corporate [...]
the rational ape
Posted in communication, energy, humanism, politics, population, sustainability on July 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve got to get back to the work that puts bread on the table which (quite sadly in my view) has nothing to do with blogging on Trinifar, but Kevin Beck made me think a bit more about some of the things I’ve written about recently. Hence this post.
“faith” is natural
What follows is a [...]
diabolical winter raspberries and nonviolence
Posted in communication, consumption, global warming, growth, human rights, humanism, politics, population, sustainability on July 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The most profound comment I’ve seen lately comes from none other than the Fashion & Style section of the NYT:
Paul Hawken, an author and longtime environmental activist, said the current boom in earth-friendly products offers a false promise. “Green consumerism is an oxymoronic phrase,” he said. He blamed the news media and marketers for turning [...]
neither religion nor atheism
Posted in communication, human rights, humanism, politics, science on July 2, 2007 | 11 Comments »
While I have written about religious atheism and offered hugs for atheists I sure didn’t expect the recent spike in readership that Trinifar experienced due to this:
Free Inquiry magazine published Atheism Is Not a Civil Rights Issue by DJ Grothe and Austin Dacey, then Matt Nisbet echoed their sentiments in all caps ATHEISM IS NOT [...]
food supply, carrying capacity, and population
Posted in communication, consumption, family planning, growth, population, sustainability on May 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Among other things, John Feeny writes about population issues. One of his commenters pointed to some academic research in the area and a discussion ensued. That’s usually the way with blogs, but this time there’s a unusual twist. The commenter put John in touch with the scientist who, although unfamiliar with the [...]
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