Posts Tagged ‘ overshoot ’

Disasters Far and Near: Haiti and the U.S. Economy

Jan 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured
As the disaster in Haiti moves into its "Katrina" phase of a organizational chaos, relief effort failure, and public health calamity, the world will get another lesson in the dangers of techno-triumphalist posturing. American authority pretends to be in flawless control of a situation that by the minute crumbles into ...read more

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Overpopulation in the USA and the Fate of the Yeast People

Nov 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
Every time I do a Q and A after a college lecture, somebody says (with a fanfare of indignation) — so as to reveal their own brilliance in contrast to my foolishness — “You haven’t said anything about overpopulation!” Right. I usually don’t bother. Their complaint, of course, implies that we ...read more

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