The not-so-elusive population-environment link
The most basic assumption driving this site is that population growth and corporate economic growth team with per capita resource consumption as the primary drivers of today’s ecological decline....
View ArticleThe Texas argument
Some people deny the problem of population. They insist that neither the present world population size nor its continuing growth is a problem. Some of these folks are influenced by certain writers,...
View ArticleIf I’m right, do I win a Nobel Prize?
It’s not easy trying to spread the word about population growth. Part of the trouble is that others, sometimes highly respected in their fields, spread contrary information. Nobel prize winners go...
View ArticleAn unholy matrimony
[The follow-up to this essay is found here.] “Overpopulation is a serious problem getting worse every year.” “Overpopulation is a myth.” “There is no population problem.” “There’s overconsumption, …...
View ArticleThe specter of mass extinction
If current trends continue, one half of all species of life on Earth will be extinct in 100 years. — E.O. Wilson What will people do? After the garden is gone. — Neil Young Something terrible is...
View ArticleAdmit it Betsy, we agree: part 2
In Part 1 of this essay, I began to examine Betsy Hartmann’s argument that population growth is not a serious problem, and that it distracts us from real problems of women’s rights, racism, and class...
View ArticleAre environmental writers choosing avoidance over truth?
It is indisputable that population size and growth are among the fundamental drivers of today’s ecological crisis. There’s no getting around the math that population size multiplies with per capita...
View ArticleJust when you thought the cornucopians had all gone away, Redditors channel...
Recently I submitted a link to an article on Trinifar to Reddit, one of the most active in a category loosely known as “social bookmarking” sites. These are sites where you can share with others links...
View ArticlePowerful population links
If this site is to be of some help in the world, it will be by providing information, through essays and discussion, of which others make productive use. With that in mind, at one time or another...
View ArticleOverpopulation: partying as the iceberg looms
I’m pleased to feature on GIM a guest article by Jim Lydecker. Jim researches and writes about such issues as peak oil, resource depletion, global warming and population. This article, which originally...
View ArticleComing up on GIM
For the next ten days I’ll be taking a summer break. GIM will be less active, but look for another guest article by Jim Lydecker. I’ll post that in a few days. Soon I anticipate receiving Russ...
View ArticleNote on peak oil and population
As as follow-up to Jim Lydecker’s essay, My World Without Oil, I wanted to remind readers of an essay by occasional GIM commenter, Paul Chefurka. Titled Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot:...
View ArticleAfter a “lost decade,” experts call for renewed focus on population growth
By John Feeney: To many, it’s obvious population growth is a key factor, arguably the key factor, in environmental degradation and resource depletion, contributing heavily as well to poverty and human...
View ArticleClimate change is just a symptom
Administrator’s note: Time for another article from a guest contributor. Jerry West describes himself as “editor/publisher/janitor” for The Record, an independent, progressive newspaper in Gold River,...
View ArticleSix steps to “getting” the global ecological crisis
By John Feeney: [Original version published at The Oil Drum; Revised here for clarity - 11/12/07, 11/17/07, 5/31/08, 8/12/08] Some of us who examine and discuss environmental matters are constantly...
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