Economic Equality Aboard the Titanic
We see it in the headlines every day, especially with the run-up to Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. We are told we “need” 3% economic growth worldwide per year to...
View ArticleReducing the Titanic Passenger List
Population growth and per capita resource consumption are the twin swords of human impact on the natural world. At 7 billion and counting, Homo sapiens has drastically overshot the carrying capacity of...
View ArticleWhat’ll it be? "Man the Lifeboats!" or The Briny Deep?
“Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly”—Woody Allen. What’s it going to be,...
View ArticleLet’s Plan for The Real Transition
Recently I had an exchange with Erik Curren in the Comments section of an article he had written about global warming. Erik is the owner of the Transition Voice web site that serves as a platform for...
View ArticleThe Myth of Economic Growth
I’ve written about the myth of economic growth quite a lot on Hayduke Blogs. Us the search bar in the lower right for a sampling. I’ve held for many years that growth is not the solution to our...
View ArticlePutting the Brakes on Population Growth
In my last post, I discussed economic growth as a factor in human impact on the Earth, and suggested that continued economic growth in a world of finite resources is impossible. Time for a maths break...
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