Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future. In which localism prevails and power moves from the top-down to the grass-roots. Prosperity will decline and life will again be worth living.
By Richard Heinberg, with permission, originally published by Resilience.org An Interview with Chris Bystroff A couple of years ago I read a paper titled “Footprints to Singularity: A Global Population Model Explains Late 20th Century Slow-Down and Predicts Peak Within Ten Years.” The banner finding of the paper—that world population is very close to peaking—seemed …
Copied from Igor’s Newsletter igorchudov@substack.com Prof Harper told the Telegraph: “I think it’s a good thing that the high-income, high-consuming countries of the world are reducing the number of children that they’re having. I’m quite positive about that.” The academic said declining fertility in rich countries would help to address the “general overconsumption that we …
by William E. Rees, School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada; wrees@mail.ubc.ca Abstract: Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, …
