Population a challenge, opportunity

We now have a population of more than 7 billion on a resource-constrained planet. Rather than seeing this number as a problem, I think it is a tremendous opportunity for new ideas, particularly among today’s youth. Imagine, 7 billion people with billions of ideas about innovation. And the most meaningful innovation is that which improves […]

The One And Only Place Fracking Is Causing Water Contamination

Bloomberg has a report on an EPA investigation into fracking for shale gas – Fracking Is Safe—Except in Wyoming. Louis Meeks, a hay farmer in Pavillion, Wyo., holds a mason jar under a faucet in his house and turns on the water. It’s a demonstration he’s given to a slew of neighbors and government officials. […]

Oil and Water Create an Uncertain Future in the Southern Wild

Cajun fishing and hunting guide Ryan Lambert has weathered his share of storms over the years. He rebuilt his house and lodge deep in the Louisiana bayou seven years ago after Katrina rampaged across the area like a wild boar through roseau cane. Two years later, he struggled to rebuild his fishing business decimated by […]

Twenty more “Niles” needed to feed growing population

The world needs to find the equivalent of the flow of 20 Nile rivers by 2025 to grow enough food to feed a rising population and help avoid conflicts over water scarcity, a group of former leaders said on Monday. Factors such as climate change would strain freshwater supplies and nations including China and India […]

The perils of alarmism

  How does carbon dioxide, a compound essential to life, come to be treated as a dangerous pollutant? How does hydraulic fracturing, a well-completion method used safely for 60 years, become controversial enough to impede the most promising energy-supply advances in at least a generation? How does a strategically important pipeline that would cross an […]

Tepco to release more video on Fukushima

Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) , the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, has bowed to pressure from the media and government and decided to release more video footage of staff trying to contain the March 2011 crisis. The footage to be released may shed light on how Tepco dealt with the No. 4 […]

Hot Air About ‘Cheap’ Natural Gas

Would you build a buy-and-hold financial portfolio from only junk bonds and no Treasuries by considering only price, not also risk? Not for long. Yet those who say cheap natural gas is killing alternatives—solar, wind, nuclear—make the same error. In truth, they’re doing the math wrong: The gas isn’t really that cheap. “Cheap gas” reflects […]

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over the last decade, world grain reserves have fallen by one third. World food prices have more than doubled, triggering a worldwide land rush and ushering in a new geopolitics of food. Food is the new oil. Land is the […]

Oil Corporations Want to Exploit Reserves Under Arctic Ice Melt

The National Academy of Science would like to see the eco-fascist view of man-made climate change be taught in school curriculum to indoctrinate future generations to unscientific ideas like the Arctic sea-ice melting is not a natural event. Alarmists are reporting that the Arctic sea ice has shrunk to 1.58 million square miles and expected […]

Japanese Nuclear Workers Hid Radiation Exposure, Sometimes Forced

Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, a spotlight has been focused on the nuclear reactors of Japan. While we are still not entirely sure of all of the consequences of this earthquake-triggered catastrophe, or the degree of each consequence, people are beginning to grasp the fact that these plants are not entirely safe (although […]

Fukishima Radiation in CA Produce, Mutations Hit South CA

Cesium detected in California nuts and fruit; airplane radiation detected in two flights; new mechanism of Fukushima fallout exposed and mutations hit California. Enviroreporter’s Micheal Collins joins Jeff Rense with the latest updates on the Fukushima Nuclear Fallout hitting the west coast of the United States. Listen to the Full 1 hour show here: http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_082012.mp3

Population Growth & Tricky Ethics

A prevailing discourse in the Green movement centers on population growth. With more people we run into more and more problems including lack of resources like arable land and potable water. Climate change will only exacerbate these already pressing problems and there will be more starvation and suffering around the world. Yet part of this […]

Could Water Strife Lead to ‘Mass Killings’ in the Future?

As the world faces possible water scarcities in the next two to three decades, the U.S. intelligence community has already portrayed a grim scenario for the foreseeable future: ethnic conflicts, regional tensions, political instability and even mass killings. During the next 10 years, “many countries important to the United States will almost certainly experience water […]

‘Eating’ Water Latest and Rising Threat to a Thirsty World

Paradoxically, the water we “eat” is likely to become one of the growing new dangers to millions of the world’s thirsty, hungering for this finite natural resource. “More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over one billion tons of food that nobody eats,” Torgny Holmgren, executive director of […]

Power Transition

by Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz After years of stagnant growth in conventional oil extraction rates, ignorance of Hubbert’s Curve has peaked. Now that the mainstream can’t dismiss the issue, public conversations proclaim an exuberant belief in marginal reserves as our savior. Claims of American energy independence have fueled a dialogue that threatens to drive […]

Veiled Threats By Prominent Neo-Malthusians: Cull Human Population Or Expect “Vast Die-Off”

In a report published last April by the Royal Society titled People and the Planet, the elitist UK-based society calls for massive population reduction and de-industrialization of the west. However drenched in euphemisms, the report cannot conceal its ominous undertones. Listed among its “key recommendations” the report proposes several measures similar to the one put […]

UN Says New Measures Needed to Address Asia Population Issues

The chief of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) is calling for Asia governments to give higher priority to women’s development programs. Babatunde Osotimehin says countries should  address increasing population concerns with what he called “foresight and justice”. Greater empowerment for women U.N. Population Fund Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin is calling for greater empowerment of women […]

The Action Camp

This is the second video subMedia.tv has produced about the struggle to stop a natural gas transport project called the Pacific Trails Pipeline or PTP. The Unis’tot’en, a clan of the Wet’suet’en Nation have built a protection camp to bock PTP, in so called British Columbia in Canada. This is the third time the Unis’tot’en […]

Global Population Rises Yet Fertility Rates Falls

Global birthrates are going down, but because of political and cultural reasons that are against contraception the global birth rate will continue to rise. The rate will largely be determined by a new generation of people who are in their prime fertile years. Strangely and paradoxically, the world’s average birthrate has slowly been falling for […]

“Complete Information Control”: Japan newspapers receive much frightening Fukushima info that’s covered up

“Complete Information Control”: Japan newspapers receive much frightening info that’s covered up — Some evacuees died from acute symptoms yet not reported — Journalists scared Translated by Dissensus Japan: Tatsuo Fujii @tatsuofujii 連投5 昨日の情報で米沢に避難している浪江町の避難民（ある特定地区です）１０人中６人が急性症状（たぶん白血病？という噂）で死亡し、避難民が震え上がっています。 浪江の人々はこの事実を役所やテレビに訴えましたが全く報道されませんでした。彼らも国は怖いと訴えています。 #原発 #福島 14 Jul 12 According to the news received yesterday, 6 evacuees out of 10 from a certain area […]

Bill Gates: World Needs Fewer People

Software billionaire Bill Gates, who previously has advocated the reduction of the human population through the use of vaccines, and his wife Melinda marked the 100th year since the First International Eugenics Congress in London with a “family planning” summit with abortionists and the United Nations. The July 11 event, co-hosted by the United Kingdom […]

‘Severe abnormalities’ found in Fukushima butterflies

Exposure to radioactive material released into the environment has caused mutations in butterflies found in Japan, a study suggests. Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident. The link between the mutations and the radioactive material was shown by laboratory experiments, they report. The […]

Australia’s acute water shortages mapped

The 2012 State of the Climate report revealed that 2010 temperatures were the warmest on record, and projected that average temperatures would rise by 1.0 to 5.0°C by 2070 when compared with the climate of recent decades. Models in the study projected an increase in droughts, and also a rising number of ‘intense’ rainfalls. The […]

Nuclear Radiation On San Francisco’s Treasure Island: We Don’t Need To Know, Apparently

“That amount of radium found to date cannot be explained by gauges, deck markers, and decontamination activities,” wrote Stephen Woods, an environmental cleanup manager at the California Department of Public Health, about Treasure Island, the rectilinear speck of land in the San Francisco Bay two-and-a-half miles of white caps from our kitchen window. It summed […]

What Would Happen If The Entire World Lived Like Americans?

After making an infographic depicting how much space would be needed to house the entire world’s population based on the densities of various global cities, Tim De Chant of Per Square Mile got to thinking about the land resources it takes to support those same cities. “Just looking at a city’s geographic extents ignores its […]

UK: Population growth in every region

The Government has a bigger job to do than delivering the Olympics because of the need to provide more housing, schools, health and transport facilities for a growing population, a leading union has said. Research for the GMB showed that the population increased in every region of the country between 2001 and 2011, placing extra […]

Offshore US Oil Rule Disappoints Environmentalists

The U.S. issued a final rule on offshore drilling safety that the Obama administration said will reduce the risk of blowouts such as the 2010 one in the Gulf of Mexico, while environmentalists said the regulations don’t go far enough. The Interior Department said the rule, issued yesterday, will cost the industry $130.7 million a […]

Malaysia: Our children and the population

‘Drug companies now have superior, improved pharmacology resulting in a safer, more effective pill since half a century ago.’ I HAVE four children. The first was Oona, our only girl; three years later came Andy and 13 months after, Mikey. Danny arrived seven years later. Of course, the perceptive reader will surmise that we used […]

The Population Boom: 10 Billion by the End of the Century

There has been a highly successful run at the Royal Court Theatre, in London, not of a play in the usual form, but of a lecture by Professor Stephen Emmott, who leads Microsoft’s Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge and is Professor of Computational Science at Oxford University. The title, “10 Billion” refers to the human […]

Environmentalists warn of risk of oil production in the Russian Arctic

Environmental activists warned Tuesday that drilling for oil in the Russian Arctic could have disastrous consequences because of a lack of technology and infrastructure to deal with a possible spill in a remote region with massive icebergs and heavy storms. Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund unveiled a report assessing the risks of an oil […]

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