[PenultimateManStanding]

for me, this is the best article in some time. A synopsis of Human History no less seen from a census count/ carrying capacity viewpoint. http://www.energybulletin.net/5874.html

[DomusAlbion]

My read of the day will be the May ASPO Newsletter:

ASPO May

Reading articles such as the one you submitted leaves me with such a sad feeling. Sadness for all of us humans. We have been such a successful species and our reward is ...

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ndustrialization committed us to living again, massively, as hunters and gatherers of sustances which only nature can provide and which occur only in limited quantity.

[oowolf]

Catton Jr's "Overshoot" is the single most influential book I ever read. If we had a REAL education system, one designed to create thinking, authentic human beings-instead of docile consumeroid specialists, it would be required reading. All the current crop of "crash and burn" books are just watered-down Catton--although I do enjoy Kunstler's tasty, sarcastic bonbons of existential nausea. I don't know why this book hasn't been reviewed on this site's book review section=serious omission.