July 6, 2022 The astute listener will recognize the trends in population and greenhouse gas emissions over the course of our chronologically arranged episodes on watershed moments in history. Describing these trends in one word: growth. In two words:...
“Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.” —William R. Catton Jr. Post Carbon Fellow Bill Ryerson’s introduction to the new book OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot. MOST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POPULATION begin with statistics—demographic data, fertility rates in this or that...
San Clemente Dam in California, now coming down. Photo via sanclementedamremoval.org Today marks a historic event for California rivers: the launch of the biggest dam removal project in state history. Over the next 28 months, the beautiful Carmel River...
Originally posted at PeakProsperity At the heart of the resource depletion story that we track here at PeakProsperity.com is the number of people on earth competing for those resources. The global population is more than 7 billion now and...
Greetings from Kigali, Rwanda. I am just finishing a week of meetings in Burundi and Rwanda regarding new projects Population Media Center is planning. I was accompanied on the visit to Burundi by Theo Nzeyimana, PMC’s Rwandese producer. ...
How can young people thrive and grow knowing that the world will increasingly become a harder and scarier place to live in? What does it mean to be young in the middle of the polycrisis? Young people are often...
It is only by pulling together that we can hope to salvage and protect what is most intrinsically valuable about our world, and perhaps even improve lives over the long term.
February 22, 2023 Stuart McMillen is a cartoonist disguised as a systems thinker. His long-form comics condense important academic topics into understandable and entertaining works of art. Stuart tackles topics in the fields of ecology, economics, psychology, and sociology....
January 11, 2023 Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. With a title like that, Jason and Bob have lots of heavy ground to...
December 14, 2022 Asher is joined in Crazy Town by Danielle Celermajer, author and professor at University of Sydney, for a far-ranging conversation about human rights and the more-than-human world. Dany shares how her personal relationship with the Shoah...