California’s Toilet-to-Tap Water Future – 'Soylent Green' or Clean?
“Soylent Green is people!” cried Charlton Heston’s character – detective Robert Thorn – in the memorable closing scene of the 1973 sci-fi... Read More
EXPLODING SOUTHWEST POPULATION ON COLLISION COURSE WITH WATER SCARCITY
PDF Download: kolankiewicz_population_on_collision_course.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow In his classic 1986 book, Cadillac Desert, the late author... Read More
Arithmetic, Population and Al Bartlett’s Indefatigable Energy — Physicist Al Bartlett Has Dedicated Life to Educating Americans
By Leon Kolankiewicz July 30, 2013 “I dropped out of college for awhile. And I worked on iron ore freighters….I used to... Read More
Firefighter Deaths in Arizona Explosive wildfire just the proximate cause
The recent deaths of 19 elite firefighters – the "Granite Mountain Hotshots" – based in Prescott, Arizona, underscore the challenging demographic and climatic... Read More
Exploding Southwest Population on Collision Course with Drought Water scarcity vs. perpetual growth
In his classic 1986 book Cadillac Desert, the late author Marc Reisner argued that explosive population growth and development in the American Southwest... Read More
California's Crowded Coast
“Preserving California’s Precious Resources” read the large, rustic wooden sign greeting motorists along Interstate 5 in northern San Diego County. I-5 is... Read More
Obama’s phony climate speech titillates his base But omits the truth he won’t admit
Loyal liberal that I am – at least when I am not being denounced as a racist xenophobe by mass immigration zealots... Read More
Senate immigration bill (S. 744) would set U.S. population soaring; Earth’s population soaring too
What’s wrong with this picture? America’s and Earth’s populations are soaring even as America’s and Earth’s resources are shrinking. This is the very essence... Read More
Humans Appear…Birds Disappear
Conservation biologists have been distraught for years over the human onslaught on biodiversity. Around the world, we have been bludgeoning, poaching, poisoning... Read More
Pioneering ecological economist Herman Daly tells tough truths… That mainstream economists and mass immigration apologists don’t want to hear
Retired economics professor Herman Daly has been at the forefront of the movement to establish a viable alternative to “neoclassical” (i.e., mainstream)... Read More