Posted in growth, population, sustainability on December 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This short web page, Hooked on a System That No Longer Serves, saved me from writing a post I’d been considering. Please read it and watch this related video from the same source:
Dave Gardner produced this public service announcement last week to submit to ABC News for the upcoming special, Earth [...]
Posted in population on December 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
John Feeney formerly of the Growth is Madness! blog has done something special in organizing the Global Population Speak Out which will take place during February 2009. Read the letter and note the stellar group who have signed on. It’s a brilliant idea and I will being doing my part to support [...]
Posted in affluence, consumerism, growth, population, science, sustainability on September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This graph of world population growth probably doesn’t provide the scare factor it once did. We see it too often nowadays. Still, the population trend of the last 200 years can’t be ignored when thinking about the sort of world the next generation will inherit, the world as it will be in [...]
Posted in global warming, growth, population, sustainability on September 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” — Terri Swearingen
Not often that population pressure gets attention from the mainstream press:
July 25, in The Guardian, Doctors’ advice to Britons: have fewer children and help save the planet
August 27, in the Chicago Tribune, Scientists: Save the planet — have [...]
Posted in communication, population, sustainability on July 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“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 [...]
Posted in affluence, consumption, economy, energy, family planning, feminism, global warming, growth, human rights, politics, population, poverty, sustainability on March 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
As I mentioned in the previous post, recently the Wall Street Journal published an article, New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears, with an interesting graphic at the bottom.
Here’s my redering of the WSJ data regarding how US commodity prices and world population have changed over time:
The CRB Spot Index is based on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in energy, global warming, growth, population, sustainability on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Preface, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
types of terraformers
In part 1, creation of a different planet: blindly terraforming Earth, I presented some raw data about which nations put most of the CO2 from fossil fuels into the atmosphere and who is doing most of it today. Here in part 2, I offer a [...]
Posted in global warming, population, sustainability on February 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Preface, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
blindly terraforming Earth
Consider the total CO2 emissions from the burning of fossils fuels from 18th century through 2004. Who emitted the most?
Europe and the USA emitted 59% of all CO2 from fossil fuels. Another 25% came from China, Russia, Japan, Canada, Australia, and India. Ships [...]
Posted in consumption, global warming, growth, population, sustainability on February 26, 2008 | 18 Comments »
What matters more: population growth, growth in greenhouse gas emissions, or some other aspect of sustainability? The short, quick answer is easy. They’re all important, they all matter. Yet, as I wrote recently activists often fight among themselves about whose issue is most critical. Two of John Feeney’s ideas quoted [...]
Posted in consumption, economy, global warming, growth, human rights, politics, population, sustainability on February 4, 2008 | 18 Comments »
…what could be done quickly to start mitigation of our total set of global problems would be for the western world to immediately reduce their consumption rates through a combination of achievable efficiency increases, conservation, and the three Rs [reduce, recycle, reuse], followed by abandonment of … luxury consumption. — George Mobus
The key word [...]
Posted in biodiversity, consumption, economy, energy, family planning, feminism, global warming, growth, human rights, politics, population, sustainability on January 27, 2008 | 38 Comments »
Note: I do intend to continue the series on Charles Siegel’s work (he has a new book out) and reflect some more on what Paul Chefurka is doing, but I keep letting other things bubble up. Most recently the discussion that began here and continued with my last post has captured my [...]
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.) [...]
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