Showing posts with label population growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label population growth. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2025

A Human License to Breed?

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Could you pass a minimal intelligence test if one were required for a "license to breed"? To find out , simply answer this ques...
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Thursday, December 07, 2017

From Pearl Harbor to a Robot Economy

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Pearl Harbor, USS Virginia Today is Pearl Harbor Day , but if you ask a dozen people why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor back in 1941, not on...
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Thursday, April 06, 2017

From Near Extinction to Common Pest in 50 Years

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It is hard to describe the destruction of American wildlife between 1850 and 1900 . By 1850 all the Elk had been shot out in the East ...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Tree Huggers Discover the Best Way to Go Green

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Over at Tree Hugger they have discovered the obvious : The Best Way You Can Go Green: Have Fewer Children : Forget changing your ligh...
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Monday, May 02, 2016

The Fox Versus the Stork

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The states of Virginia and Maryland can be described as "the mother church of fox hunting in America." Robert Brooke of Mary...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

The U.S. Now Has More Lions Than Africa

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I tossed the latest copy of Earth Dog - Running Dog magazine into the truck on the way to work this morning, and was flipping through it...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

The Real Threat to Hunting

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A repost from this blog, July 2004. For hunters, fluttering orange tape and popsicle-colored sticks mean only one thing: Doom . This ...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015

God Bats Last

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For other thought games along this line see : Barbed Wire and Biodiversity The Complete History of the World in 15 Seconds The Volunt...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Monarchs & Mexico

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A repost from this blog, 2009. "I understand more and more how population is the problem. I was asking almost every peasant I me...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Why Anti-Hunt Vegans Should Get Sterilized

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A repost from December of 2004. Most animal rights activists do not spend much time thinking about how animals die in the woods. Her...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Back to the Start... Back to the Garden of Eden

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Willy Nelson sings Coldplay's "The Scientist"on this video. Back to the start ... back to the Garden of Eden, which was no...
Friday, December 23, 2011

The Missing Birds of Rock Creek Park

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OvenBird This was written in 2003 for a major environmental organization. The decline of neotropical migrant song birds in the U.S. was f...
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Bird Species Decline in the U.S

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In large parts of the U.S., over half of our songbird species are in decline. Scientists say habitat destruction is largely to blame. ...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Pump Jacks and Plastic Houses

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As we enter election season , it's worth remembering what the REAL threat to hunting is in America, and it's not a loss of guns. A...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Islands of Wolves, Rats, Lions and Dogs

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Isle Royale, Michigan.  An island of wolves. In the real world, population bottlenecks are not always quite as big a problem as some p...
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Saturday, November 05, 2011

Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom'

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Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel 'Freedom' hits on population growth, mountaintop removal mining, invasive species, conservatio...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Losing Nature

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“Worldwide we are estranged from nature.  Over half of the world’s population is now urbanised which means that more than one person in two ...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

The Common Denominator is Too Many of Us

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

You are Here.

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This is the world. We can do better. .
Monday, May 09, 2011

The Pace of the Problem

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IN 1950 , the populations of North America and the area that comprises Latin America and the Caribbean were exactly the same. TODAY , the...