DIVERGING DEMOGRAPHY, CONVERGING DESTINIES: GROWTH, INTERDEPENDENCE, MIGRATION AND WORLD INSTABILITIES
- Lindsey Grant
- January 1, 2003
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Much of human activity can be characterized as accidental experiments.
Continue ReadingToo Many People: The Case for Reversing Growth
- Lindsey Grant
- January 7, 2001
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This book explores a fundamental but seldom asked question: has the recent growth of human numbers and economic activity imperiled our well-being, social justice and even the natural support systems on which we and other creatures depend?
Continue ReadingTHE WRONG APOCALYPSE
- Lindsey Grant
- June 1, 1999
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Peterson calls it “global aging”, but he is really talking about the developed world,* particularly western Europe and Japan.
Continue ReadingIN SUPPORT OF A REVOLUTION…
- Lindsey Grant
- December 1, 1997
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Very few writers seem to recognize that growth cannot continue forever in a limited space, and that mathematical truism applies to the real world, today.
Continue ReadingOFFICIAL OPTIMISM, JOURNALISTIC HYPE: THE UN 1996 POPULATION PROJECTIONS
- Lindsey Grant
- December 1, 1997
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The United Nations a year ago distributed its periodic population projection World Population Prospects. The 1996 Revision.
Continue ReadingSUSTAINABILITY, PART III: CLIMATE, POPULATION, AND UNCED+5
- Lindsey Grant
- October 1, 1997
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The United Nations is a good place to observe the “zip re-pop” phenomenon.
Continue ReadingTHEY ASKED THE WRONG PEOPLE
- Lindsey Grant
- August 1, 1997
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The NRC has released the executive summary of a report on the economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration.
Continue ReadingSTORMY SEAS AND HEAD IN THE SAND
- Lindsey Grant
- August 1, 1997
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The Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
Continue ReadingSustainability, Part II: A Proposal to Foundations
- Lindsey Grant
- March 7, 1997
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The nation grows, but public and political interest in the consequences is close to negligible. That inattention makes the issue more, not less, important. What is here proposed is the use of a systematic foresight process — a “Sustainability Project” — to bring population growth back into the national debate by publicizing …
Continue ReadingSustainability, Part I: On the Edge of an Oxymoron
- Lindsey Grant
- March 1, 1997
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Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The term “sustainable development” has become fashionable, but it is regularly used in the sense of “sustainable growth,” a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue at the same old stand growth as a solution to all problems and yet couch it in terms that will not offend environmentalists. The …
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