Peak phosphorus
Phosphorus is one of the three major nutrients required for agriculture. Applying Hubbert analysis reveals that production of phosphates probably reached a world peak in 1989.
Overshoot
Peak phosphorus: readings
Background on the phosphorus problem and possible responses.
Deep thought – Aug 7
Insurgent American
Sharon Astyk de-constructs
The really inconvenient truth
In dusty archives, a theory of affluence
Climate: Asia awakes – Aug 2
“Asian Brown Cloud” speeds melt of Himalaya glaciers
Siberian forest fires due to climate change
Pakistan: uncontrolled population blamed for climate change
Resilience, oil, entropy – July 31
Diesel-driven bee slums and impotent turkeys:
the case for resilience
Jeff Vail: Losing our balance?
Kunstler: Vanishing point
Worrying about food – July 31
UK floods underline urgency of achieving national self-reliance in food crops
Copper thieves cripple farms in California
Copper theft spoils food bank groceries ($484,000 worth)
History prof: Worry about bread, not oil
WSJ: Green Revolution at risk of going bust
Environment – July 28
Humans appropriate 24% of Earth’s productivity
Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation
Our share of the planetary pie
China cancels environmental report
Deep thought – July 28
Review: The Upside of Down
Alex Steffen: The world with us
Researchers say giving leads to a healthier, happier life
Understanding the demographic transition
A shift in world population into a roughly steady state is occurring right now. How it works, what causes it, and what we can do to encourage it.
Population – July 19
Citizens arrest
Abstinence Education Faces an Uncertain Future
World Population Day Targets Men
Indonesia Copies China’s Planned Family Program
Astyk: Talking Population With the Old Men
Digesting Lovelock left and right
Lovelock’s main message is far more disturbing than anything he has said about nuclear energy, wind turbines or pesticides. That message is that we must put Gaia, the great climate and physical system of the Earth which sustains life, first before any other concern.
What to do? – June 11
Astyk: Pick up your hat (is it time yet?)
Choosing to live the good and sustainable life
Taking action in the face of collapse
Green future demands a radical shift in lifestyles for British
Lessons of history help the future