Is our Current Population Boom Creating a Population Bust? How can we use our human ability to be pro-active to not be only reactive as an animal is? We don’t think of ourselves as animals, but sometimes it seems to me we act like them in not being really conscious of the choices we make. […]
A Ghastly Future?
Is the population bomb a fatal threat? Or are there countervailing trends? Will technology fix it….or not? Is growth a solution … or not? And will women save us? An interesting overview from Carl Safina at Yale … an ecological perspective. A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the […]
Urbanization and over population
John Verdon, CACOR member, recently in an email conversation on population with Gabriela Gref Innes, said: As Geoffrey West’s book makes very clear – cities not only provide a 25% energy/material savings with a doubling of size – they provide a 15% increase in opportunity with each doubling. Urbanization by increasing the density (not just […]
John Meyer Canadian Energy History May 2020
Population Hits 10 Billion
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 […]
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