Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Those who imagine humans eventually returning to agrarian societies also often imagine that such societies have the potential to be much more democratic and egalitarian than our current world. But, among those who imagine what I’ll call a sustainable industrial future, there is little discussion of future political arrangements.
In this paper we will consider the implications of the dwindling supply of oil in light of the Olduvai Theory.
His ideas have been the inspiration since 1798 for anyone concerned about over population and food scarcity. Relegated to history’s back shelf in the 1960s by agriculture’s Green Revolution, his forecasts are back, with a vengeance.
Clare Short: Birmingham should become a transition city
A family farm in the midst of suburbia
No wonder Iceland has the happiest people on earth (their secret revealed)
Expert warns climate change will lead to ‘barbarisation’
Thomas Homer-Dixon interview
The Onion: Everything falling apart, reports Institute
Obesity contributes to global warming
Why puberty at an ever-younger ages?
Environmental results of the Gold Rush
Not as green as they claim to be
A leftist critique of Transition Towns – review by Rob Hopkins
Malthus, the false prophet
Are there just too many people in the world?
New Yorker: Is the world’s food system collapsing?
In search of a better revolution (than the Green Revolution)
Raj Patel’s Starved
Fewer poor people, more volatility in food prices?
Herman Daly: Moving climate policy from ‘know how’ to ‘do now’
Climate worries wealthy, polluting nations least
What condoms have to do with climate change
Interview with Mark Anielski: The Economics of Happiness
Return of the population timebomb
Consumerism: curses and causes
C.I.A. chief lists population as a top concern
Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise
The Population Bomb revisited
More choice for women means more sustainability
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
