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  • Does Sturgeon’s Law Apply To Human Beings?

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  • The Earth Is Full

    Updated: 2011-06-30 14:12:15
    But you already knew that!  Thanks to Fred Stanback and several others for this OpEd by Thomas Friedman, which you can find at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1 Op-Ed Columnist The Earth Is Full By Thomas Friedman Published June 7th, 2011 You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first [...]

  • Encircling the Peak of World Oil Production

    Updated: 2011-06-29 14:15:42
    Thanks to the authors for this paper.  See http://www.mnforsustain.org/oil_duncan_and_youngquist_encircling_oil.htm Encircling the Peak of World Oil Production By Richard C. Duncan and Walter Youngquist The peak of world oil production, followed by an irreversible decline, will be a watershed in human history. The goal of this paper is to predict the world peak. Production data from [...]

  • World’s Reef Fishes Tussling With Human Overpopulation

    Updated: 2011-06-27 14:07:28
    Thanks to Ben Zuckerman for this important article.  See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405130347.htm Science Daily 4-5-11 World’s Reef Fishes Tussling With Human Overpopulation “Coral reefs provide a range of critical goods and services to humanity — everything from nutrient cycling to food production to coast protection to economic revenues through tourism,” says Camilo Mora at Dalhousie University and [...]

  • Financial measures to address ageing promote inequality and weaken the budget

    Updated: 2011-06-27 01:30:23
    Thanks to Mark O’Conner for this article by Dr Ben Spies Butcher, Lecturer in Economy and Society at Macquarie University in the independent magazine The Conversation, April 26, 2011, which dismisses the myth of an aging ‘crisis’. Titled “The myth of the ageing ‘crisis’”, Mark points out that it says that despite the constant talking [...]

  • An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future

    Updated: 2011-06-27 01:24:29
    From Solutions Magazine. See: http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/919 An End to Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key to a Sustainable Future By Robert Engelman, Executive Director at the Worldwatch Institute In Brief: The widespread assumption that world population, now at 6.9 billion, will inevitably grow to 9 billion by midcentury is wrong. Population could peak before then [...]

  • Why Family Planning Is Critical to Global Energy Strategy

    Updated: 2011-06-24 14:12:58
    Thanks to Joe Bish for this article.  See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-maceachern/why-family-planning-is-cr_b_852395.html Why Family Planning Is Critical to Global Energy Strategy Diane MacEachern During the first Earth Day in 1970, environmental activist Stephanie Mills made headlines when she announced she would not reproduce to avoid contributing to climate change and other environmental problems attributed to a growing human [...]

  • Increased population growth rate in the Northern Region of Brazil endangers the Amazon rainforest

    Updated: 2011-06-23 14:46:20
    Thanks to Paula Simas of Sustainable Population Brazil for this article.  See http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2011/04/19/nas-aldeias-indios-plantam-maconha-estao-viciados-ate-em-oxi-trabalham-para-trafico-924286406.asp#ixzz1K9FMUA8j Increased Population Growth Rate in the Northern Region of Brazil endangers the Amazon rainforest. According to preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the growth rate of population of the Northern Region of Brazil contradicts the downward trend of the remaining regions of [...]

  • Crop growers brace for more violence in Egypt

    Updated: 2011-06-22 14:49:00
    I came across this article in the Egyptian Gazette on an Egypt Air flight. See: http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=18928&title Crop Growers Brace for More Violence in Egypt By Mohssen Arishie – The Egyptian Gazette Sunday, June 5, 2011 04:22:53 PM CAIRO – As the nation starts to sweat under a scorching sun, Egyptian farmers are afraid that there [...]

  • WHEN THE NILE RUNS DRY*

    Updated: 2011-06-22 14:43:18
    Thanks to Lester Brown for this article.  See www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update97 When The Nile Runs Dry Earth Policy Release Plan B Update June 7, 2011 By Lester R. Brown A new scramble for Africa is under way. As global food prices rise and exporters reduce shipments of commodities, countries that rely on imported grain are panicking. Affluent [...]

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