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Tag Archives: carrying capacity
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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Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?
[ I’ve summarized the 20 top reasons why population growth was abandoned by environmental groups and received little coverage in the news media the past 40 years. I highly recommend reading Beck and Kolankiewicz (2000) “The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from … Continue reading →
Posted in Overpopulation, Population
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Tagged carrying capacity, immigration, population, sierra club, tragedy of the commons
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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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Collapse of Mayan civilization from water shortages
Aigner, F. August 30, 2016. The demise of the Maya civilization: water shortage can destroy cultures. American Geophysical Union blogosphere. Something really drastic must have happened to the ancient Maya at the end of the Classic Period in the 9th … Continue reading →
Posted in Drought, Drought, Peak Food, Scientists Warnings to Humanity
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Tagged carrying capacity, civilization, collapse, consumption, drought, water
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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 →
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Increasing population + declining fossil fuels = less population
[ This essay looks at the human footprint on the planet, how it grew so large, the problems it causes, and the consequences. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer … Continue reading →
John W Day Jr, Charles Hall, et al: Ecology in Times of Scarcity
Day, J. W. Jr., Hall, C.A., Yanez-Arancibia , A., Pimentel, D., Marti, C. I., and Mitsch, W. J. 2009. Ecology in Times of Scarcity. BioScience. 59:4, 321-331. Abstract In an energy-scarce future, ecosystem services will become more important in supporting … Continue reading →
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Tagged carrying capacity, climate change, ecology, energy scarcity, exponential growth, overpopulation
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