Humans need to think like a life-giving planet
The world has set in motion environmental trends that are threatening civilization itself. We are crossing environmental thresholds and violating deadlines set... Read More
Crocodile Hunter’s Teen Daughter Back in the News on World Issue
Bindi Irwin, the teenage daughter of the late Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, has been gaining recognition in her own right. Aside from... 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
Memo to Earth: Expect 11 Billion People by 2100
July 11th was World Population Day, an annual event begun by the United Nations to build awareness about population growth and its impacts.... 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
S. 744 Omits Population Impact Study; Findings Would Be Catastrophic
The 2006 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, S. 2611, had a tiny section buried within it that’s interesting to contemplate, especially considering S.... Read More
Endless population growth Ensures the Four Horsemen in America
The green revolution arrived as a result of the efforts of Norman Borlaug who, while accepting the Nobel peace prize in 1970, said: “The... 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