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Now that growth is killing us…
The article I discussed last time, by New Zealander Allen Cookson, was a brief gem with an emphasis on population growth and some mention of the flaws, as well, in our economic model of continual...
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Waking up to humanity’s most urgent challenge
The future: determined by ecological awareness or complacency and denial? By John Feeney: It is essential to see the profound peril in continued flagrant misperception of the very nature of the human...
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My world without oil
For this post, I’m happy to feature another guest article by Jim Lydecker. I’ve been slow to cover peak oil here more than in passing, not because it isn’t terribly important (It is.) but because I’ve...
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Note on peak oil and population
As as follow-up to Jim Lydecker’s essay, My World Without Oil, I wanted to remind readers of an essay by occasional GIM commenter, Paul Chefurka. Titled Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot:...
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Global population reduction: confronting the inevitable
Update (6/22/08): Since posting Ken’s article, I’ve noticed in site stats that it’s been linked to by a couple of people offering it as evidence of some nefarious conspiracy to exterminate much of...
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Is it enough to “solve” energy?
Some comments under Kent Welton’s Growthism essay raise a subject of profound importance. There’s a widespread notion that if we could just make the transition to completely clean and renewable energy...
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We are so very distracted
By John Feeney: This screenshot is from a talk I’ll be giving at A Renaissance of Local in Lyons, Colorado. It concerns the media’s consistent failure to recognize the most important news story in...
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Weighing the benefits and the deficits of advancements
Administrator’s note: For this post, I’m glad to be able to feature a guest article by Emily Spence. Emily’s essays on a variety of social and ecological topics appear regularly on progressive websites...
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WEAP model on The Oil Drum
[Note update below. Paul's updated model is here.] There’s a lengthy discussion on The Oil Drum of Paul Chefurka’s World Energy and Population: Trends to 2100. I mentioned Paul’s paper in the...
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Six steps to “getting” the global ecological crisis
By John Feeney: [Original version published at The Oil Drum; Revised here for clarity - 11/12/07, 11/17/07, 5/31/08, 8/12/08] Some of us who examine and discuss environmental matters are constantly...
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Humanity is the greatest challenge
The article quoted and linked to below came out of an idea I submitted to the BBC News’s Green Room. I was lucky enough to contact a wonderfully helpful and supportive editor (Thanks, MK!) and the...
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Grim worldview from the deck of the Titanic
Administrator’s note: Jim Lydecker’s essays have appeared previously on GIM. In this one, which first appeared as a guest commentary in the Napa Valley Register, Jim does an especially good job of...
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Interviews: Bartlett and Ehrlich
Below are two interviews worth a listen. The first is with Al Bartlett. The second features Paul Ehrlich. Each is, of course, a leading thinker and writer on a variety of topics in sustainability....
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Sowing the seeds of a future society
Editor’s note: Articles on GIM typically reflect the assumption that we may be able to avert societal collapse or other catastrophic consequences of our ongoing violation of Earth’s limits. Admittedly,...
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