By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on earth. How are we going to provide everybody with basic needs while also avoiding the worst impacts of climate change? In a talk packed with wit and wisdom, science journalist Charles C. Mann breaks down the proposed solutions and finds that the answers fall into […]
The Pink Elephant in the Room that Nobody Wants to Discuss: Population
The Pink Elephant in the Room that Nobody Wants to Discuss: Population – Part 1 By foreseeing problems at a distance, which is only done by men of talents, the evils which might arise from them are soon cured. However, when, from want of foresight, they are suffered to increase to such a degree […]
How human population came from our ability to cooperate
Humans may owe their place as Earth’s dominating species to their ability to share and cooperate with each other, according to a new study published in the Journal of Anthropological Research. In “How There Got to Be So Many of Us: The Evolutionary Story of Population Growth and a Life History of Cooperation,” Karen L. […]
The Underpopulation Bomb
larger families are not happening anywhere where the population has become urban, and urbanity is now the majority mode of the population and becoming moreso. Every developed country on the planet is experiencing falling birth rates. Singapore (with the lowest fertility rate in the world) will pay couples $5,000 for a first child and up […]
The 3 Unmentionables
The 3 Unmentionables If you are ever at a dinner party and have the audacity to mention 1 of the 3 ‘unmentionables’ you risk being thrown out onto the street or worse – embarrassed and shamed by all, perhaps even put in the stocks! So, what are these 3 ‘unmentionables’? Sex, religion and politics or in […]