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 […]
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. […]