Earth Day and Population: A Missed Opportunity
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version An NPG Forum Paper by Leon Kolankiewicz THE RISE AND FALL OF EARTH DAY: FROM SPONTANEOUS, SUBVERSIVE HAPPENING TO CORPORATE-SPONSORED FEEL-GOOD FEST I was a skinny sophomore at a suburban high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the time of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. That rapidly receding, epochal event …
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Crushing Biodiversity with the Weight of the Human Race
BIODIVERSITY – DISPATCH FROM THE FRONTLINES
Some years ago, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras I was invited to help lead a fact-finding mission into the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. The Río Plátano (Plantain River) flows through the green, humid heart of an isolated region called La Mosquitia – the largest remaining rainforest wilderness of this ecologically-stressed Central American nation…
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DYING OF THIRST: POPULATION GROWTH, CLIMATE CHANGE AGGRAVATE WATER SHORTAGES
Water – Much More Than Just the “Universal Solvent”
Chemists refer to water – H20 or H-O-H – as the “universal solvent,” because it is capable of dissolving a wide range of different substances. In fact, more substances or chemical compounds can dissolve in water than in any other liquid….
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The Other Soil Erosion: Long-Term Erosion of Our Productive Farmland Base from U.S. Population Growth
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The Other Soil Erosion: Long-Term Erosion of Our Productive Farmland Base from U.S. Population Growth Introduction – Appreciating the Land That Feeds Us In the new century, sustainable agriculture has become a buzzword of sorts, and fresh, healthy (preferably organic), locally-grown food is an ideal if not a mantra. In the Mid-Atlantic …
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More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version More Nonsense on Inexhaustible Resources from The Wall Street Journal Over the years – even over the decades, long before it was absorbed into the Murdoch Empire – the inimitable Wall Street Journal has been a reliable source of baloney on the subject of prospects for infinite growth on a finite planet. …
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