Think It’s Bad Now?
Enjoy what could well be our last few months of culturally reinforced American insularity and relative plenitude. But at least put this bit of news in your pipe and smoke it in the meantime. Talk about it with family and friends. Or start digging up your backyard to grow some veggies.
I’m a happy guy despite [...]
This Is My Country Too
Everything Americans think they know, they learned from a televised morality play. It’s all theater. You root for some good guy and boo some bad guy. You pick your own, but you dance to the tune of the men running the show. It’s mind control, pure and simple, and if there is an American immune [...]
Clear-cutting on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the beachfront towns of south Mississippi are now facing unprecedented environmental threats by developers. Most recently, they’ve begun knocking down formerly “protected” trees to make room for their ambitious condo and commercial building projects. It appears the local city governments are powerless and the money people are moving in to stay [...]
Population growth + global warming: Double Whammy
Earth’s Human Population (in billions)
1800: 1.01900: 1.72000: 6.12100: a range of possible scenarios:
a) with one-child families: 1.4b) with two-child families: 8.7c) at year 2001 growth rate: 22.2
Note: 1 billion = 1,000 million = 1,000,000,000
In 2001, the growth rate (birth rate minus death rate) of the world population was 1.3 [...]
