• Lindsey Grant
• October 1, 2010
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The ancient Greeks used the word hubris to describe vaulting pride that challenged even the gods.

• Lindsey Grant
• September 1, 2010
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For years, it has been puzzling to see commentators debating whether peak oil is a future possibility, when the U.S. Energy Information Administration (DOE/ EIA) data showed world crude oil production peaking in 2005.

• Lindsey Grant
• February 19, 2010
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version My attention was called recently to a Department of State position paper that said simply that “The U.S. does not endorse population ‘stabilization’ or ‘control.’ The ‘ideal’ family size should be determined by the desires of couples, not governments.” That is not just a major retrograde step; it is a particularly bad …

• Walter Youngquist
• February 1, 2010
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Few people have as much sympathy as I do for the people of Haiti, especially for the children, for I saw their desperate plight years before the earthquake.

• Otis L. Graham, Jr
• September 10, 2009
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Read the entire paper, download a PDF version Immigration and America’s Unchosen Future America Headed in the Wrong Direction The first decade of the twenty-first century brought the United States a mix of conflicting and mostly unsettling indicators of where the nation was headed, and public opinion polls registered a steady increase in pessimism. Presidential candidates in 2008 encountered a public …

• David Simcox
• April 18, 2009
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B O O K   R E V I E W  On Track to Dystopia     2045: A Story of Our Future, by Peter Seidel; Prometheus Books:  Amherst, NY, 2009; ISBN 978-1-59102-705-8   An environmental architect and planner and longtime population activist, Peter Seidel has written a troubling work of speculative fiction about environmental and social conditions in the U.S. and …

• David Simcox
• March 1, 2009
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Nothing gets people’s attention more than being elected President of the United States.

• Lindsey Grant
• February 1, 2009
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The country is presently absorbed in the financial crisis. We have, as usual, pretty well forgotten all the other issues that had been or should have been worrying us: fossil energy decline and the coming energy transition; climate change and its impacts; a growing water crisis; threats to U.S. food production; the …

• David Simcox
• July 19, 2008
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Continuing world population growth was a huge but unacknowledged elephant in the conference hall at the June 2008 UN-Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Summit in Rome on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy. Remarkably, only a handful of the more than 200 heads of government, foreign ministers, ambassadors and ministers of agriculture, development and trade …

• Lindsey Grant
• February 1, 2008
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The name of the abyss is energy.