Scientists Issue Humanity Another Warning…Yet Again
Human domination of the biosphere likened to rapid discharge of a battery With ever greater frequency it seems, reputable scientists are sounding... Read More
House GOP Drought-Relief Bill Ignores Immigration and Population Growth
In late June, California Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a 170-page so-called drought-relief bill that they claimed would pump... Read More
Peak Oil ≠ Peak Exports
Saudi Arabia must consume ever more of its oil to supply its own exploding population Saudi Arabia’s explosive population growth: The number... Read More
Book Review: ‘Presidents and the American Environment’ by CAPS Board Member Otis Graham
For about a dozen years during my ongoing three-decade career as an environmental planner and wildlife biologist, I consulted extensively for the... Read More
Book Review of Presidents and the American Environment, by Otis L. Graham, Jr.
By Leon Kolankiewicz July 6, 2015 Which U.S. presidents largely fought for America’s environment, and which largely fought against it? This is... Read More
Going Boldly—and Recklessly— Where No Man Has Gone Before: Trespassing Planetary Boundaries
PDF Download: caps_issues_trespassing_planetary_boundaries_july_2015.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow July 2015 For several decades earth scientists and ecologists have warned that... Read More
Resolving Chronic Water Scarcity – ‘Waste Not, Want Not?’
When it comes to solving chronic and intensifying water shortages in the Southwest, including California, many politicians, journalists and even environmentalists apparently... Read More
California’s Epic Drought: A Shortage of Water or a Longage of People? State has 39 million people … and counting … give or take a few
PDF Download: caps-issues-epic_drought_-_6-1-2015.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow June 2015 A SPECIAL STATE. California, as every Californian and indeed every... Read More
Overdeveloped, Overpopulated, Overshot
A visually stunning new coffee table picture book has been published in conjunction with 2015’s Global Population Speak Out (GPSO), a campaign... Read More
Gov. Brown Pushes ‘Toilet-to-Tap’ to Solve California’s Water Shortage, but Pooh-Poohs Immigration Reduction, Population Stabilization
In California’s fabled golden age, pristine Sierra Nevada snowfields furnished sparkling snowmelt and water for the state’s residents and farmers. Will toilets... Read More