Jack Alpert (Bio) mail to: Alpert@skil.org www.skil.org Other position papers
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How fast and how much the world is changing |
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Explains the speed of change in systems which are described by exponential growth |
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How to choose behavior when there is little recovery from a bad choice |
Some problems have such big consequences that choosing a risky behavior is unthinkable. |
| The end of Suburbia | Trailer for a movie that spells out the end of oil is the end of suburbia. |
Intended to show the affect of immigration on the USA. But what it shows is that the forces shaping the groups that want to immigrate are humankind's ultimate problem. |
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| Who is not going to eat? (Choose second topic of the Jacque Diouf video) | UN director describes which countries are not going to eat. |
Best articles on the web |
| Food Scarcity Jn 2008 Energy Bulletin | The cost of cooking oil defines the food crisis. |
| The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial By Robert Jensen, AlterNet. Posted August 15, 2008. |
Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive. |
| The Economist Has No Clothes | Unscientific assumptions in economic theory are undermining efforts to solve environmental problems |
| China's coal use doubles Australian coal price | Big consumers up the price of commodities |
| Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories | As fuel cost increase people starve |
| Ethanol and Peak Food |
The free market dictates that henceforward, SUV's and beef cattle will eat, but poor people will not. |
When the cost of eating is increasing - poor people will stop eating |
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We might get to a point where the markets take food out of peoples mouths before the market takes gas out of our pumps. |
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The conflict in Kenya, after the Jan 08 elections may be a model for the whole world |
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Soil can be consumed and regenerated, but can we over use it like a fishery with the same results. |
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150 million people (and growing) live in a place that has drought and floods that are getting worse. Is this a great plan? |
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| Too many people in the USA to be sustainable Albert Bartlett | One of the god fathers of over population lays it on the arrogant |
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| I will vote for a One child per family Law | |
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Jack Alpert (Bio) mail to: Alpert@skil.org www.skil.org Other position papers |
