Population: Control or Perish

Dr BK Mukhopadhyay (A noted management economist and an international commentator on business and economic affairs. He may be reached at m.bibhas@gmail.com) French Institute of Demographic Studies projected that by the end of this century there will be 10 to 11 billion people on the planet. The world population will jump from the current 7.1 […]

China’s population to peak in 2029 at 1.44 bn

A study by China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) warned that the country must implement policies to handle a smaller workforce and an older population, the BBC reported on Sunday. (Representational image)Reuters China’s population will peak in 2029 at 1.44 billion before beginning a period of “unstoppable” decline, a government report said. The study by […]

Becoming Plastic

“We can just equip these new monkeys with some silicon AI and have done with the slow and random variety of evolution.”   ‘Sometimes weird things hit a tipping point. For a combination of reasons, including a viral video showing a turtle with a straw stuck in its nose, companies waged war on straws this […]

Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction And Possibility

“Everyone says climate is the most important issue of all, and yet they just carry on as before. I don’t understand that. Because if the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival. Either we go […]

How’s the Population Doing?

How’s the Population Doing? 00:00 01:24 Happy new year everyone! As our global family kicks off a brand new year let’s take a moment to get a snapshot of our big family by asking the big question: How’s the population doing? Listen to this Question Your World radio report produced by the Science Museum of […]

The Rise of the Environmentalist Antagonist

Villains in comic book movies have a lot of different motivations, ranging from “I just want to watch the world burn to” to revenge, but one of the most interesting is the “environmentalist villain.” In this past year, in Avengers: Infinity War and Aquaman, we have two villains motivated by a sense of doing what’s right […]

Insect population declining around world

Something is going on in the world of bugs. Actually, something is going wrong in the world of bugs, which means that something is going wrong in the world. Studies are beginning to show the bug population is dropping so low that scientists are now calling it a “bugpocalypse” or “insect armageddon.” The problem is […]

Population Expert Welcomes Declining Fertility Rates

Declining fertility rates throughout the world should be welcomed, said Sarah Harper, an expert on population change at the University of Oxford. Her comments came in a report by The Guardian. She maintained the focus on boosting population was outdated and possibly bad for women. Women now have an average 2.4 children in their lifetime, […]

The Flight from Nature

A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled “It’s time for climate change defeatists to get out of the way.” If you’ve watched the slow-motion train wreck of climate change activism for more than a year or two, you […]

Will peak oil save Earth’s climate?

This year, international delegates gathered in Katowice, Poland for the thirty-second international climate meeting in 40 years. As they dithered over whether they should “welcome” or “note” the 1.5°C pathways report they had commissioned, our world was on pace to set another all-time record of 10.88 billion tonnes of annual carbon emissions. Carbon-dioxide in our […]

Too Many People Heating Up the Planet

The Trump Administration released the Fourth National Climate Assessment on Friday November 23, which concluded: “time is running out” to correct a coming climate catastrophe. Make no mistake about it, the only reason they released it at all is because publication was mandated by law. The conclusions in Climate Assessment #4 are, to say the least, […]

At UN, Gore Demands “Ubiquitous” Population Control for Climate

KATOWICE, Poland — Amid freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore arrived at the United Nations COP24 “climate change” summit to preach about a looming “dark age” and a “hell on earth” if humanity refuses to accept his solutions to alleged man-made global warming. “It is real!” Gore (shown) pleaded Wednesday. […]

Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future

Just as the bird’s nest, the badger’s lodge and the bees’ hive require investments of energy for their construction and maintenance, so too with human settlements. Taken to the extremes of scale and intricacy, settlements in the form of cities constitute humanity’s most energy-intensive creations. In fact, cities might be viewed as meta-creations that enable […]

The Sound of a Second Shoe Dropping

“To avoid the worst of the predicted outcomes, global carbon emissions must be cut by half by 2030, to zero by 2050.“ Montage by author of images from Bartek Sadowski, Bloomberg Polish coal mining supplies 80% of the power to the UN climate summit.    A comment on one of my Facebook posts helped me […]

Over Half of the World’s Tropical Forests Have been Destroyed

UN Biodiversity Conference in progress in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The conference ends November 29. Credit: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 28 2018 (IPS) – Biodiversity conservationists have revealed that at least 10 more percent of land than what is currently being used to grow green crops will be […]

Analysis: Fossil-fuel Emissions in 2018 Increasing at Fastest Rate for Seven Years

Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will grow by around 2.7% in 2018, the largest increase in seven years. The new data, from researchers at the Global Carbon Project (GCP), is being published in Earth System Science Data Discussions and Environmental Research Letters to […]

“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” World Leaders Warned

– “Time is running out” – Sir David Attenborough “Continuation of civilisation is in your hands,” Attenborough warns world leaders – Mass extinction is “on the horizon” – Failure to ‘join the dots’ between environmental risks and significant economic challenges (Editors note: The world faces some very serious ecological challenges due to the pollution, destruction […]

How to save the world from ‘perfect storm’

Global warming is just one example of a problem that does not recognise national boundaries. Pandemics, migration, extremism, nuclear proliferation are some of the other problems that would be unresponsive to nationalist solutions. Someone has to rise to the occasion. The subcontinent is, according to previous US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, “the most […]

Cities with no water

Water scarcity is a condition that surfaces when water resources are insufficient to fulfil people’s usage demands. For any region or country, water scarcity occurs if the availability of water is less than 1,000 m3/person/year. This is among the most serious problems that the world is currently facing. The reasons for this scarcity are surprisingly […]

A Hidden Radioactive Heat Source Seems To Be Melting Antarctica from Below

When it comes to measuring ice loss at the poles, and predicting what might happen next, scientists need as much accurate data as they can get – and a new study suggests there’s a big source of geothermal heat underneath East Antarctica that we haven’t yet factored into our calculations. Ice in this area appears […]

Welcome To Planet Earth by Caitlin Johnstone

Welcome to Planet Earth, where books written by dead men tell the living how to live. Where children who do not know how to live teach their children how to live. Where children pray for miracles using minds that are made of miracles with clasped hands that are made of miracles. Where children wander in […]

Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Drawdown was a major collaborative effort involving 70 research fellows from 40 countries. It’s not so much a cohesive plan as a list of partial solutions: 80 that are tested and in use at least somewhere in the world, and another 20 that are speculative. The book has a few essays but is primarily composed […]

Researchers Discover Second Earth: Pack your bags

Researchers have confirmed the existence of a SECOND Earth located in the Proxima Centauri System. The planet is believed to have oceans just like Earth and may hay host alien life. In the past, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in the universe, but none of them is like Proxima B. Proxima b, as has […]

How our food system is eating away at nature, and our future

As you eat your next meal, ask yourself if you really know what you’re eating – not just the ingredients or where they came from, but what has gone into them. How much land was needed? How much water was used? How much energy was required? We need to ask ourselves these questions, because how […]

Could A Limit On Kids Stop The World’s Population Crisis?

Listen as a KZN man shares his view on overpopulation in South Africa: <a href=”https://iono.fm/e/625867″>Content hosted by iono.fm</a> Worldometers reports that there are over 7.6-billion people out there in the world, while SA Government has reported that 56.52-million of those people reside in South Africa. These are scary statistics when you really think about it. […]

Where do you fit into the 7 billion people on Earth?

Have you ever found yourself wondering how many people there are on Earth? Or perhaps you are curious as to what your birth date may signify in the grand scheme of things. Or are you a teacher in search of a new learning tool to share with your students? Well, thankfully there is a great […]

‘Remarkable’ decline in fertility rates

There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a “baby bust” – meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size. The researchers said the findings were a “huge surprise”. And […]

A Very Grim Forecast

Diane Burko Diane Burko: Grinnell Mt. Gould #1, #2, #3, #4, 2009; based on USGS photos of Grinnell Glacier at Glacier National Park, Montana, between 1938 and 2006. Burko’s work is on view in ‘Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs,’ at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., until January 31, 2019. The accompanying book is […]

Transition US Honors Movement Leaders

As part of “Unleashing the Collective Genius: Celebrating 10 Years of Transition in the US!” the first national online summit hosted by Transition US on October 27, 2018, members of the Transition US Collaborative Design Council presented seven awards to 10 individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to community resilience-building efforts here in […]

Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice

An widely-circulated study which concluded that global warming is far worse than previously thought has been called into question by a math error, reports the Daily Caller‘s Michael Bastasch. Princeton scientist Laure Resplandy and researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography concluded in October that the Earth’s oceans have retained 60% more heat than previously thought over […]

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