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Tag Archives: carrying capacity
Collapse of Mayan civilization: drought, mercury poisoning, toxic algae
Preface. Drought is probably reason #1, but collapse is complex, I’ve seen lists of over 200 reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire, and our own fall will have even more causes, though triggered by energy decline, since for … Continue reading →
Posted in Drought, Drought & Collapse, Peak Food, Scientists Warnings to Humanity
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Tagged carrying capacity, civilization, collapse, consumption, drought, Mayan, mercury, toxic algae, water
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Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?
Preface. This post summarizes the 20 top reasons why population growth was abandoned the past 40 years. A deeper understanding can be found in the excellent Beck & Kolankiewicz (2000) “The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization” and … Continue reading →
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Deforestation, Disease, Overpopulation, Pesticides, Pollution, Population, Transportation, Water Pollution, Wildfire
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Tagged Borlaug, carrying capacity, green revolution, immigration, overpopulation, population, sierra club, tragedy of the commons
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Is there a long emergency plan for peak oil?
Source: A year on the midieval farm https://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/year-medieval-farm/ Last updated March 2022. Ever since I learned about peak oil in 2000 after reading my grandfather Pettijohn’s memoir (Pettijohn 1984), I’ve wondered what The Plan To Cope with Oil Decline … Continue reading →
Posted in An Index of Best Energyskeptic Posts, Energy Policy & Politicians, Farming & Ranching, Government on what to do, Military, guns, Over Oil
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Tagged agriculture, carrying capacity, dawn of everything, emergency plans, long emergency, peak oil, war, weapons
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Bodhi Paul Chefurka: Carrying capacity, overshoot and sustainability
Preface. This is a post written by Bodhi Paul Chefurka in 2013 at his blog paulchefurka.ca here. I don’t understand his ultimate sustainable carrying capacity based on hunter gatherers. Why will agriculture go away? But the rest of the article … Continue reading →
Posted in Overshoot, Paul Chefurka, Population
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Tagged carrying capacity, overshoot, sustainability
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Richard Heinberg: Systemic change driven by moral awakening is our only hope
[ Although this was written over a year ago on August 14, 2017 by Richard Heinberg on Ecowatch, it’s as true today as it was then, and worth republishing since people forget what they’ve read in the past Alice Friedemann … Continue reading →
Posted in Climate Change, Critical Thinking, Overpopulation, Overshoot, Population, Richard Heinberg
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Tagged carrying capacity, climate change, overshoot, population
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The mega rich are escaping to New Zealand — the best place to survive collapse
Preface. China has the largest navy in the world now, at some point during collapse it would be easy to invade Australia, New Zealand, and other refuges. And anyone else who can sail. In hard times, the property rights of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Australia, carrying capacity, collapse, New Zealand
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Why did the environmental movement drop the issue of overpopulation?
[ This is most of the 27 page report. Beck and Kolankiewicz wrote this to explain why the environmental movement abandoned the goal of keeping population within the carrying capacity of U.S. resources. Systems ecologists such as Paul Erlich, David … Continue reading →
Posted in Population
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Tagged abortion, carrying capacity, environmental movement, overpopulation, population
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An invasive green monster that can double in 2 days and impossible to control threatens 20 states
[ The 2011 House of Representatives hearing below is a discussion of how to control salvinia. We spend about $135 billion on invasive species a year – what will happen when the fossil energy to remove them is … Continue reading →
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, BioInvasion, Peak Food
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Tagged biodiversity, carrying capacity, invasive species
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Are humans an invasive species?
Rob Jordan. April 5, 2016. Populations of early human settlers grew like an ‘invasive species,’ Stanford researchers find. Stanford University. When humans colonized South America, their populations grew like a typical invasive species – an initial explosive growth rapidly reached … Continue reading →
Posted in Biodiversity Loss, BioInvasion, Peak Food
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Tagged bioinvasive, carrying capacity, crash, extinction, invasive species
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How Nixon and the Catholic Church conspired to stop actions to prevent overpopulation
[ All of what follows is from the article below. Mumford makes the case that: “Had the recommendations of NSSM 200 been implemented in 1975, the world would be very different today. The prospects would have improved for every nation … Continue reading →
Posted in Overpopulation, Population
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Tagged carrying capacity, overpopulation, population
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