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Category Archives: Limits to Growth
The two most terrifying graphs ever?
2016 is on track to be the warmest year on planet Earth since reliable records have been kept; and comes at the end of the warmest ever decade. Furthermore, if and when the World’s under-developed economies get their industrial pollution … Continue reading
Geoscientists get all ethical about climate change
The Geoscientist is the Fellowship magazine of the Geological Society of London. With the Permission of the Editor of the magazine, I hereby republish extracts from three items in the most recent issue (cover image shown here) of the magazine: … Continue reading
James Lovelock stuck between a rock and a hard place
Although much delayed and interrupted by other stuff, this is now the third part of my review of The Revenge of Gaia, as published by James Lovelock in 2006. The first and second parts were published on this blog last … Continue reading
There is no New World Order conspiracy
This post was therefore not published yesterday (i.e. International Workers’ Day). Since publishing my book, I have been contacted by a number of academics in a variety of countries who are doing – or have done – research into climate … Continue reading
The population consumption environment nexus
Today’s post is that which was intended for last Monday. However, thanks to the happy coincidence of incoming information, Monday’s post was taken up with summarising an 11-year old presentation by Dr Albert A. Bartlett, entitled ‘Arithmetic, Population and Energy’, … Continue reading
A cornucopia of Prometheanism
This post has been prompted by an exchange of comments I have been having with Patrice Ayme – on my previous post (i.e. here) – that I feel deserves wider exposure and/or appreciation. However, if you have not the faintest … Continue reading
Memo to Osborne, Merkel, Cyprus and the World
Dear George Osborne, Chancellor Merkel, EU Commission, Citizens of Cyprus, and people everywhere, I would like to hereby remind you of what Richard Heinberg said in his book The End of Growth. Here is a quick audio-visual summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqDS9wGsxQ Please … Continue reading
Domestic abuse on a planetary scale
The UK Home Office is currently running a hard hitting campaign to highlight the common truth that both victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse cannot recognise (or admit) the nature of their situation. The campaign is entitled, ‘If you could … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Limits to Growth, Mass Extinctions, Optimum Population, Politics
Tagged Clive Hamilton, domestic abuse, Ecological Scarcity, Home Office, Requiem for a Species, Sir David Attenborough, unintended ecocide, William Ophuls, William Rees
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The nonsense of “Sustainable Growth”*
* “Sustainable Growth” is a term invented by World Leaders last year at the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil. On a finite planet with finite resources, it is a physical impossibility; it is an oxymoron; to talk about it is as … Continue reading
Life is full of tough choices…
…but this isn’t one of them. Or is it? The trouble is, of course, that removing all the subsidies and tax breaks given to the fossil fuel industry (which are delaying the creation of a free market in power generation) … Continue reading
Anthropocene Reality 