population

How Much Degrowth is Enough?

We know that it is possible to place only a finite number of pennies on a sheet of paper. That number becomes smaller if the paper is burning at the edges - in other words, if the flat resource base is being consumed.

New Latino - Hispanic majority by 2042 - US population explodes

In 1965, everyone considered themselves “Americans” in the “Melting Pot” of the great American experiment of a constitutional republic. The United States demographic consisted of 90 percent European-Americans, 7 percent African-Americans and 3 percent Latino-Hispanic-Americans.

A snapshot of education reform: Latino students in DPS

The performance gap between Latino and black students and their white peers remains stagnant
The Denver Post
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Colorado News

Physicist Al Bartlett is dead at 90 - well known population lecturer - video tribute

Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett (1923-2013) died on September 7, 2013 at age 90. 

Can the US Feed the World?

Monday, September 9, 2013
Our American Future

The September issue of Progressive Farmer magazine included a well-researched spread on “Feeding the World - Food Cliff - Can a booming world population be fed without overtaxing resources?" The article asks:

Overpopulation in America and the world: radioactive oceans

Fukushima in overflow: radioactive effluent circulating into all oceans
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Our American Future

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ― Chief Seattle

Population growth drives need to transform flushed toilet water to tap water

Every corner of Colorado is facing a future with more people and less water
9 News
Monday, August 26, 2013
Our American Future

[...] Every corner of Colorado is facing a future with more people and less water ...

"The state continues to develop and we've got to provide for the long-term future of the residents here in Castle Rock as well as around the state," Marlowe said.

A slow-motion Colorado River disaster - a people longage in the Southwest

La Times
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Our American Future

On Aug. 7, the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority called for federal disaster relief to address the consequences of water scarcity in the Colorado River system. On Friday, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it would be forced to cut the flow of water into Lake Mead in 2014 to a historic low...

Requests for asylum in the United States along the border with Mexico have more than doubled over the last three years

An average of 30 people per day have arrived at San Diego ports seeking asylum
The New York Times
Sunday, August 18, 2013
National News

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