Tuesday 15 July 2008

Are Humans Smarter than Yeast? - by Dan Chay

a video about doubling times, population overshoot and collapse, consumption, the assumption of unlimited growth and its environmental impacts. It is also available on The Oil Drum.

see comments and links in Subverting Overconsumption by Nikko Snyder of goodgirl.ca
See also the Daisyworld simulation by James Lovelock, and other earth systems models.
Human population compared to arable land: see J.H. Stevenson's world clock.

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