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Category Archives: Sustainability
The USA leads the way
Hans Rosling again, this time explaining to the US State Department that datasets beat mindsets. He shows them (among other things) that even in sub-Saharan Africa has countries as advanced and well off as the US. is today. He says … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability, environment
Tagged Gapminder, overpopulation, population bomb
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Should there be a new way of living for the top one billion? – The Hans Rosling edition
TED video, “Hans Rosling explains why ending poverty” and increasing wealth “– over the coming decades – is crucial to stop population.”
Posted in Sustainability, environment
Tagged Gapminder, overpopulation, population bomb
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Rational Optimism versus locavorism
Over at Cafe Hayek, George Mason University professor Don Boudreaux posted a letter he wrote to the NY Times. David Sassoon of Harlemville, NY, is a locovore because, in his words, he’s “interested in restoring community through the act of … Continue reading
iPads and Kindles are better for the environment than books? Come again?
Brian Palmer (aka Slate’s Green Lantern) writes that “iPads and Kindles are better for the environment than books.” If the Lantern has taught you anything, it’s that most consumer products make their biggest scar on the Earth during manufacture and … Continue reading
Posted in Forestry, Sustainability, Technology
Tagged Deforestation, ebook readers, ebooks, eReaders, Forestry, Sustainability, Technology, The illusion of preservation
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Should there be a new way of living for the top one billion? – iPat edition redux
Steven Earl Salmony of the AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, commented on Dot Earth’s, “Do the Top Billion Need New Goals?” , Dear Timberati, Do you think there is any chance at all that Paul Ehrlich, despite his poor … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability, Technology, environment
Tagged Ehrlich, overpopulation, population bomb
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