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Let’s Talk About Collapse
I’m a reasonably even tempered sort of a bloke, but recently I’ve been feeling a bit, well, shall we say,…
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The Impossibility of Growth
Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other. Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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Growth is Obsolete
Society needs to realize growth does not equal prosperity. The word that sticks in the craw of many who cogitate…
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Paradise Lost
Many of us who have been paying attention to the state of the world over the last half century have…
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It’s a Forest, You Just Can’t See It
An aerial view of a goat farm in the desert outside Dubai, a landscape that would benefit from Tony Rinaudo’s…
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Genetically Modified Crops and Hunger – Another Look at the Evidence
Genetically modified crops are hailed by their proponents as the basis for a “new green revolution”, and as the key…
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The Great Unmentionable
We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions by George Monbiot Every society has topics it does not discuss.…
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New Era of Food Scarcity Echoes Collapsed Civilizations
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one…
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How Tight is the Link Between Oil, Food and Population?
The linkage is this tight: In this graph "grain" is the world’s annual production of rice, wheat and corn, "oil"…
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Finding Sustainability in Ecosystem Restoration
Before (below) and after (above), Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabiliation Project A Breakthough of Worldwide Importance In 1995, as the Chinese…
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Tony Lovell on Soil Carbon: Putting Carbon Back Where It Belongs – In the Earth (TEDx video)
I love the nice progression of logic in this presentation. Running the numbers like this shows not only how powerful…
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