When your major concerns are buying a new car, funding your retirement, getting that next raise, and seeing your kids get a good education, spending much time thinking about the environment, peak oil, and population pressure can seem a bit batty. It works the other way too. People steeped in sustainability issues, [...]
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social agency, ending isolation
Posted in moonbats, sustainability on February 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
a dark green future
Posted in consumption, economy, energy, family planning, global warming, growth, moonbats, politics, population, science, sustainability on January 22, 2008 | 44 Comments »
In Sowing the seeds of a future society, Ken Whitehead expresses not just a doomsday view of the future but a singularly dark prescription for what to do about it: concentrate on building remote communities that can seed the post-apocalyptic civilization. (In the comments on that post you’ll find my thoughts on Whitehead’s work.) [...]
responding to skeptics
Posted in global warming, moonbats, politics, sustainability on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Black, the BBC News website environment correspondent, writes,
In a recent survey of 140 climate scientists, 18 percent found the IPCC too alarming but 82 percent either thought the IPCC represented a reasonable consensus – or said it was not alarming enough. No one agreed with the statement that global warming is a fabrication and [...]
consumption control: banning ego machines
Posted in consumerism, consumption, growth, moonbats, sustainability on November 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Everyday at the bottom of the NYT webpage you’ll find a list of three articles under the heading Automotive. As in the example on the right it’s not unusual to find one about a particularly small or environmentally friendly vehicle while another reviews a monstrosity designed for men with small penises and no conscience [...]
fisking Porretto
Posted in blogging, growth, moonbats, population, sustainability on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
John Feeney’s piece on the BBC News site, which I wrote about here, engendered this response titled Population Doom by The Curmudgeon Emeritus (a.k.a. Francis W. Porretto):
Many fine minds, prominent among them the late Julian Simon, applied appropriate observations and economic reasoning to the matter, and in so doing demolished all the “evidence” [...]
myriad views on overpopulation
Posted in biodiversity, consumption, economy, energy, family planning, global warming, growth, human rights, moonbats, politics, population, sustainability on November 9, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Commenting on a post over at Growth is Madness!, Magne Karlsen pointed to this op-ed piece in the Telegraph by Boris Johnson, a conservative MP running for Mayor of London. Reading this on the heels of John Feeney’s essay on BBC News site (that link links to the BBC article, see here for my [...]
the collapse gap
Posted in affluence, consumerism, consumption, economy, energy, global warming, growth, human rights, moonbats, politics, prisons, sustainability on August 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s dark, funny, scary, insightful, and a really fine read if you can stomach it:
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US by Dmitry Orlov.
Closing the ‘Collaspe Gap’ is a distillation of Orlov’s Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century part one, part two,and part three.
Bush administration improves women’s health prospects
Posted in family planning, moonbats, politics on April 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The title of this post is about as far as I want to go on April Fool’s Day. Here’s the real news:
“It’s a good day for women’s health,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
See here, here, and here.
For background see Feministing’s article from November 16, 2006:
Breaking: Bush appoints [...]
love your baby, have only two
Posted in consumerism, growth, moonbats, population on February 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Over at Growth is Madness! John Feeney notes that both population and consumption growth are significant problems in our world. In a previous post he highlighted the relationship in terms of fossil fuel use which, since it is easily and quite fairly determined by the product of population size and per capita consumption, [...]
space mirrors, the next Star Wars
Posted in moonbats on February 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Sheelzebub at Pandagon strikes again, this time with Climate Change a Go-Go. (Maybe I should just dedicate this blog to riffing on Sheelzebub’s posts.)
So she, Sheelzebub, does a great job of lampooning the use of space mirrors to mitigate global warming. (I don’t know about Sheelzebub’s gender yet feel the need to pick [...]
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