Global Footprint Network News: Free Public Data Set for 2018 The Global footprint network has for several years been providing information on the footprint of humans on the planet, showing by country how much is required to support a person and all their consumption. Some people (including Canadians) consume much more than others to support […]
IT HAS BECOME SO POPULAR THAT NO-ONE GOES THERE ANY MORE
Overtourism; the 10 causes Tourism is now the world’s largest industry and the largest annual migration of millions in global history. At all scales it brings stresses to the planet and in particular to targeted destinations. Work is ongoing in many destinations (I, Ted Manning am currently involved in carrying capacity studies in China and Mexico […]
AGM — Why The Limits to Growth was right and what we need to do now
Why The Limits to Growth was right and what we need to do now Graeme Maxton is the Secretary General of the Club of Rome A trenchant critic of modern economic thinking, he is the co-author (with Jorgen Randers) of Reinventing Prosperity, Managing economic growth to reduce unemployment, inequality and climate change, (Greystone, October 2016). The […]
Mayan End Times: Lessons or Not?
Mayan End Times: Lessons or Not? The collapse of Mayan civilization after dominating and advancing during the first millenium AD has been the subject of many conjectures and has often been cited as perhaps the most telling example of humans exceeding their limits. Many authors have alleged that they simply exceeded the capacity of […]
WATCH THE PLANET POPULATION EXPLODE
EXPLODING POPULATION MAPPED GLOBALLY Watch the human population skyrocket over the years in slow(fast) motion For millennia, the population of the Earth trundled along at a pretty even rate. But then came the Industrial Revolution … It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach a billion – and only 200 years to […]