Unsustainable Farming: From Bird Droppings to Corporate Agriculture
The discovery of new lands to exploit, and new energy sources, helped reinforce the notion that human societies can always find a way around limitations upon its growth.
limits to growth
Care for the earth
Are values more important during times of scarcity, and how must our values change if we are to survive?
Unsustainability Now!
What will happen when an unsustainable system attempts to keep running as if the resources necessary for its continuation still existed?
Economic Growth: A Social Pathology
We have built our society, economy, and belief systems around the benefits and sustainability of economic growth. As further growth endangers our welfare by destroying the earth’s ecology upon which we are dependent, the inability to move away from such growth is truly pathological.
At the edge of time
An interpretation of the recent crisis as due to mineral scarcity.
Plundering the planet: a report to the Club of Rome
We have been acting with mineral resources as if we were pirates looting a captured galleon: grabbing everything we can, as fast as we can. It it is the subject of a book that is the result of a research program sponsored by the Club of Rome and that has involved me and 16 co-authors.
Mineral resources and the limits to growth
So, ladies and gentleman, let me start with this recent book of mine. It is titled "The Plundered Planet."
Growth and Laissez-faire
How do you envision a successful economy without continuous growth?
If Overpopulation Isn’t the Problem, What’s the Question?
Since the end of the 18th century, when Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, there’s been controversy regarding the concept of “carrying capacity,”…
Twenty (Important ) Concepts I Wasn’t Taught in Business School – Part I
Around 30% of matriculating undergraduate college students today choose a business major, yet ‘doing business’ without knowledge of biology, ecology, and physics entirely misses first principles ~ my too long but also too short summary of the important things I wasn’t taught in business school is below.
Albert Bartlett: On message about exponential growth to the end
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"in 1969. The lecture begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
Stranger in a strange land
Everything pulses, and pulses maximize the flow of power in systems. I pulsed in a big way this year.