Perhaps you’ve seen the headlines about tomorrow: World population to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, according to United Nations predictions. Are we overpopulated? You’ve seen graphs of population projections from the UN showing the population leveling off or possibly decreasing by 2100 like this one. Does the graph reassure you and make you feel good that the population problem is working itself out with no big collapse likely,[…] Keep reading →

Mark and I share more highly researched, thoughtful conversation on human welfare and the environment. We see things differently, but I consider our conversations the type we should have more of. This session we cover The book Limits to Growth as well as the concepts underlying limits to growth Earth’s carrying capacity How much wealth is consumed by food and fuel, now and historically, and how much it’s dropped How[…] Keep reading →

Mark and I share more highly researched, thoughtful conversation on human welfare and the environment. We see things differently, but I consider our conversations the type we should have more of. This session we cover The book Limits to Growth as well as the concepts underlying limits to growth Earth’s carrying capacity How much wealth is consumed by food and fuel, now and historically, and how much it’s dropped How[…] Keep reading →

Mark is a physicist who went into business around the environment. There aren’t many of us, so I think you’ll hear a rapport we enjoyed that I think you’ll enjoy too. We indulge in physicist talk. I contacted him because I found his reports on what solar and wind—what I don’t see how we can call renewable, green, or clean energy sources—require in their manufacture, transportation, installation, decommissioning, and more.[…] Keep reading →

Mark is a physicist who went into business around the environment. There aren’t many of us, so I think you’ll hear a rapport we enjoyed that I think you’ll enjoy too. We indulge in physicist talk. I contacted him because I found his reports on what solar and wind—what I don’t see how we can call renewable, green, or clean energy sources—require in their manufacture, transportation, installation, decommissioning, and more.[…] Keep reading →

The biggest challenge to sustainability isn’t a lack of solar panels or carbon taxes. They result from our behavior, which results from our beliefs and culture. Among the biggest challenges is changing those beliefs. To change them, we have to identify them. I think we know they aren’t supposed to be true, just satisfy our consciences enough to let us sleep at night, that I can call them lies. We[…] Keep reading →

Gaya gets systems, how to change them, and not fall prey to rationalizations that sound tempting but are self-serving excuses like “individual actions don’t matter” or “only governments and corporations can act on the scale we need.” I loved this conversation for her knowledge and experience in what will reverse humanity’s pattern of lowering Earth’s ability to sustain life. She shares and elaborates on major points like that technology is[…] Keep reading →