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300 years is only 5-7 generations in the human species. We are not fruit flies. Natural selection is a constant regardless of the external environment. In fact it accelerates when there is a disr ...

Oh, and to address your original point:

Remember how recently it is was that we were all so charged over the debates on this forum around population control or controlling ones freedom to breed or ...

Phantom carrying capacity is created when a population relies upon non-renewable resources for which there is no renewable substitute. Phantom carrying capacity lasts until the least abundant necessit ...

A few months ago the very breathing of the word about controlling the freedom to breed or of the necessity to increase the death rate to reach sustainability was enough to send many people into a mora ...

Ibon, congratulations to you and your family! Wow, those pics took my breath away.

Having done environmental work in Asia I can only confirm that places like this that still have a high level of e ...

So yeah, PO curve with a much more stretched out population curve after it and to the right.
I think this is clearly going to be the case. What is missing on this graph that is of utmost interest for ...

Either you meant something else by "this", or our ideas of mute are different, or I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd, which my mother has been telling me for a long time
It was the unfolding financ ...

Phantom carrying capacity.

I tend to agree that we are now well in the range of phantom carrying capacity of humans on the planet. But I now look at this issue similar to peak oil in that it wi ...

I have noticed that since all discussion of overshoot/die-off/zombie hordes was moved to its own forum that cannot be seen by un registered folks that the volume of posts regarding these subjects has ...

Actually, relative to some Web Bots and Biblical interpreters calling for 10/4/2008 as Judgement Day, I'm on the conservative side Smile

I was giving it until 10/13/2008. That's the day my US Pass ...

What a lovely thread. Browsing the 7 pages it seems like I am reading through a new set of cultural values of the post peak world; friendships, good food, appreciation of your job, community etc.

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It is well understood that this century will deal with the consequences of our overshoot. It will be a century where we will be conceptually knocked off the self entitled expectations off abundance. I ...

Remember how recently it is was that we were all so charged over the debates on this forum around population control or controlling ones freedom to breed or increasing the death rate? Do you notice ho ...

This is not my area of expertise. It would be great to have Mr. Bill way in on this but I did have some inputs recently from overseas.

There is a lot of inertia in the global financial system, gig ...

The debate HERE is as chaotic as it could GET. Nobody really supports EITHER candidate.

Its posturing and ridiculous. The war will be fought at home inside each country. The Nation States are ...