Sometime in the next few months, the world’s population clock will tick over seven billion people. Global population has tripled in my lifetime, and is continuing to rise. The UN has just predicted we face a world of 10 billion in 2100. This has immense implications for all of us, and Australia will not be [...]
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Claims that Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is a fizzer are misplaced – the bomb is still ticking.
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For audiences where concern for ecosystems and biodiversity may not resonate, expressing limits in terms of risk and safety – a ‘safe operating limit’ – could be a powerful way to help communicate the importance of limits.
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Oregon is an interesting state. It is one of the three states on the pacific coast, equally mixed with both liberal and conservative thought, and full of beautiful landscape. I spent my early years in Oregon, both Northern and Southern. There are some serious, progressive discussions going on in Oregon. A recent article on Oregon [...]
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An overview of the Global Footprint Network’s 2010 ‘Opportunity of Limits’ Forum, the first gathering of its kind centered on the issue of ecological limits and how they will influence the future.
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Do people understand and accept the concept of ecological limits? We can convey this to people, who typically tend to comprehend things as they manifest at the local scale, by unearthing the local lore relating to limits.
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Climate action will only gather momentum once nations see that decisive action is in their own best interest. This compelling self-interest story becomes obvious once we understand climate change as one of a number of related crises emerging from humanity’s systematic overuse of available resources. This reframing presents a great impetus for transformation.
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