Category Archives: Overpopulation

‘The oil we eat’. Following the food chain back to iraq

Posted on August 25, 2026 by

Source: The Oil We Eat – How Our Food System Depends On Oil and How Fragile It Makes Our Food Security Preface. Even though this article was published in 2004, it is still true today, only worse. This article will … Continue reading →

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Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America

Posted on August 18, 2026 by

  Preface.  Before the fossil fuel age began, up to 90% were farmers. The end of the brief blip of oil production will send us back to that time (if we aren’t so far into overshoot we go back to … Continue reading →

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Admiral Rickover 1957: Energy Resources & Our Future

Posted on August 11, 2026 by

Preface. I’ve shortened and reworded this prescient speech.  You can see all of it at “Energy resources and our future” – remarks by Admiral Hyman Rickover delivered in 1957″ archived at http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph240/klein1/docs/rickover.pdf and resilience.org has a speech by Congressman Roscoe … Continue reading →

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The Green New Deal is not a solution for the real problem: Overshoot

Posted on August 4, 2026 by

Preface.  Seibert & Rees’ paper is important and well-written, without unintelligible scientific jargon.  It explains overshoot in just 13 pages, and covers the most important issues we face and real solutions. It explains why the Green New Deal is a … Continue reading →

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Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

Posted on May 26, 2026 by

Preface. This is another “Scientists Warnings to Humanity” by many famous scientists, including Paul & Anne Erlich, John Harte, Peter Raven, and Mathis Wackernagel. Some of the challenges they point to are loss of biodiversity and consequent 6th mass extinction, … Continue reading →

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Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?

Posted on March 31, 2026 by

Preface. This post summarizes the top 26 reasons why population growth was abandoned the past 50 years. Further reasons can be found in Beck & Kolankiewicz (2000) “The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization” and Weisman’s “Countdown: Our … Continue reading →

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John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves

Posted on February 2, 2026 by

                      Preface. I first published this post in 2012 and have updated it today. Below I summarize a part of a 2012 article by John Howe on having one child … Continue reading →

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Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity

Posted on November 26, 2025 by

Source: The Overpopulation Project (2020) Is overpopulation a dirty word?  Too many people consuming too much Preface. Without fossil fuels, the carrying capacity of the planet would be around 300 million people. Fossil fuels made it possible for human population to … Continue reading →

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Egads! An unfair distribution of wealth is good for the climate

Posted on July 16, 2025 by

Preface. Good grief!!! I never thought I would write a post with that title. I am pro Democracy, pro fair distribution of wealth!  As you can see at posts here. But it has occurred to me that if if everyone … Continue reading →

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Tom Murphy Stubborn Expectations (on population)

Posted on March 13, 2025 by

U.N.Total fertility rate projections Preface. Tom Murphy has one of the best blogs on limits to growth, energy resources and more in his blog Do The Math. He is a professor emeritus of the departments of Physics and Astronomy & … Continue reading →

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