This book explores a fundamental but seldom asked question: has the recent growth of human numbers and economic activity imperiled our well-being, social justice and even the natural support systems on which we and other creatures depend?
Continue ReadingPeterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.
Continue ReadingVery few writers seem to recognize that growth cannot continue forever in a limited space, and that mathematical truism applies to the real world, today.
Continue ReadingThe United Nations a year ago distributed its periodic population projection World Population Prospects. The 1996 Revision.
Continue ReadingThe United Nations is a good place to observe the “zip re-pop” phenomenon.
Continue ReadingThe NRC has released the executive summary of a report on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration.
Continue ReadingThe Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The nation grows, but public and political interest in the consequences is close to negligible. That inattention makes the issue more, not less, important. What is here proposed is the use of a systematic foresight process — a “Sustainability Project” — to bring population growth back into the national debate by publicizing …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The term “sustainable development” has become fashionable, but it is regularly used in the sense of “sustainable growth,” a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue at the same old stand growth as a solution to all problems and yet couch it in terms that will not offend environmentalists. The …
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Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth’s ability to support them.
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