Tag: Population Growth - Page 3
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Good News (No, Really): We May Only Need to Increase Food Production 70% by 2050
What's the good news in that headline? According to the UK's Soil Association, estimates by the UN that to feed our ever-increasing population we will have to double food production by 2050 are too high and based on flawed
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PETA and Octomom, Together At Last!
The woman currently known as Octomom has agreed to place a PETA sign on her lawn urging passersby to spay or neuter their pets to ensure they don't become octomoms themselves. That's right, she's agreed to advertise the
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Education is Very Green, Yet 300 Million of World's Schoolchildren Don't Have Clean Toilets or Water
Yesterday we heard that India announced a new program that aims to bring more efficient biomass cookstoves into homes of some 800+ million people who rely on them, bringing big health benefits. Well, time to switch
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Let's Give Out Free Condoms to Stop Climate Change... Maybe Not as Daft As It Seems
Here's the latest salvo in the ongoing population growth-climate change debate: The latest UN Population Fund report says that an important component in combatting climate change is limiting population
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It's Not Them, It's Us: Developing World Population Growth Not Adding Much CO2
Yesterday it was Fred Pearce saying that overconsumption of natural resources was the bigger problem than overpopulation, and here's another voice backing that point: Times Online reports that the International Institute
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Resource Overconsumption Not Population Growth the Real Environmental Problem: Fred Pearce
Every time I write about overpopulation it's like poking the proverbial hornet's nest: Nothing, and I mean nothing, evokes as visceral responses as suggesting people have fewer children. Well, in a new piece for
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Yale Essay Says Sustainability and Open Immigration are Often at Odds
Image by YaleGlobal A recent essay in YaleGlobal online by Jamie Chamie explores the controversial connection between immigration and overpopulation—a subject that is constantly framed morally or economically, but rarely environmentally. The essay
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Needed: Copernican Shift Toward A Global Eco-Economy
In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," in which he challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved
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Trusting Government And Business To Work Together
All around us a new industrial revolution is beginning. WBCSD President Bjorn Stigson calls it a "lean, mean, clean" revolution. It will be clean because we know we cannot go on polluting as we have been and maintain functioning ecosystems; it will
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Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
In the May issue of Scientific American I discuss how food shortages could be the weak link that brings down civilization. For many years at Earth Policy
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World Malaria Risk Map Updated - With Surprising Conclusion
SciDev Net reports on a new World malaria map [that] could guide control policy. The revisions constitute the first update in over 40 years. Its preparers conclude that simple control measures such as bed nets are likely to
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UN Ups Its Low Population Growth Scenario for 2050: Developed World Birthrates Increase
Though the United Nations thinks that the most likely scenario for human population growth will mean that the planet will have to accommodate 9.2 billion people in 2050 (which is a very slight reduction from previous
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More On The Ecological Stimulus Package: Lessons From The Ancients
Here's a not-so-Trivial Pursuit Question: what ancient society survived dire ecological circumstances for 500 years by reorganizing their production systems, restructuring their economy,
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When Population Growth And Resource Availability Collide
As land and water become scarce, competition for these vital resources intensifies within societies, particularly between the wealthy and those who are poor and dispossessed. The
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Africans' Modest Eco-footprint Still Has Negative Impacts in Some Countries
We reported recently about Africa's changing environment due to climate change. Well, here's another way in which Africa is changing: Natural Resource Consumption.
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TH Forums Highlights: Disposable Crap Avalanche, Bamboo Forests + More
1) Forums user tracylee is engaging in a heated discussion at work over the disposable crap -- pens, sticky notes, etc. -- that the company gives away at conferences. Rather than choosing between two
