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True sustainability solutions
We live in a world with very limited solutions to our sustainability problems. I often hear the view, “If we would just get off fossil fuels, then our society would be sustainable.” Or, “If the price of oil would just … Continue reading
Posted in Planning for the Future
Tagged CO2, CO2 emissions, ecology, fossil fuels, natural gas, petroleum, solar PV, sustainability, wind turbines
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Human population overshoot–what went wrong?
There are seven billion people on earth now. I originally thought that the primary reason for the recent human population explosion was that fossil fuels enabled a larger food supply and better medicine, and thus a higher population. While the … Continue reading
Posted in Planning for the Future
Tagged Craig Dilworth, ecology, overshoot, population, territoriality.
153 Comments