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Richard Reese blogs at What Is Sustainable.

Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil

By Richard Reese | June 18, 2015

feeding the world

Nothing is more precious than balance, stability, and sustainability. Today, we’re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change, and it’s the only way of life we’ve ever known.  Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket.  He grew up on a farm, and studied agronomy at college. But sharp changes were causing many farmers to go bankrupt and taking over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, food, Green Revolution, hunger, overpopulation

With ten billion coming, sustainable is not enough

By Richard Reese | March 30, 2015

crowd

Stephen Emmott is a chief techno-wizard at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. His brilliant young scientists are doing research in complex natural systems. Their objective is to invent miracles. They want to program ordinary cells to perform photosynthesis, so we can produce food from sunlight, without plows and seeds. Agriculture can't feed ten billion. The goal is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, Microsoft, overpopulation, peak oil, Stephen Emmott

The population prophet we all love to hate

By Richard Reese | January 15, 2015

Paul Ehrlich

In 1968, biologist Paul Ehrlich achieved infamy by publishing The Population Bomb: Population Control or Race to Oblivion?, one of the most controversial eco-books ever printed.  Ehrlich has been condemned to spend eternity with Thomas Malthus, in a dungeon reserved for doom perverts.  To this day, professors still use the two lads as great reasons to never take seriously … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Green Revolution, overpopulation, Paul Ehrlich, Thomas Malthus

Soil erosion may get us before climate change does

By Richard Reese | December 1, 2014

Syrian ruins

Outside the entrance of the glorious Hall of Western History are the marble lions, colorful banners, and huge stone columns. Step inside, and the popular exhibits include ancient Egypt, classical Greece, the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, Gutenberg, Magellan, Columbus, Galileo, and so on. If we cut a hole in the fence, and sneak around to the rear of the building, we find the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Dust Bowl, farming, soil erosion, U.S. Soil Conservation Service

Novel targets climate science deniers

By Richard Reese | August 25, 2014

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway are science historians, and they are hopping mad at folks who deny that humans are the primary cause of climate change. Their outrage inspired them to write The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, which has sold furiously in its first month on the market. It’s a 112-page science fiction rant. The story is a discourse on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Erik Conway, Naomi Oreskes, post-peak fiction

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