Submit your general comments: Such as recent news, upcoming events, books, population-environment papers and reading, keeping in touch with forum members
Randolph Femmer
Saturday, 25 July 2009 10:58 UTC
This topic invites forum members to post items of population and carrying capacity interest. It exists to help us keep in touch and up-to-date with our fellow forum members and with upcoming events, recent news stories and population-environment papers and readings. Are there top population-environment books or journal articles or current events and conferences that you care to mention or critique? As always, please help keep input professional and scholarly.
Updated 06 September 2009 19:16 UTC
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Recent online information (July 2009): The International Council for Science (ICSU) at www.icsu.org is soliciting comments and perspectives for top “earth system research priorities” for the coming decade. Comments and questions that have already been posted range from population growth to climate change. Here is a chance to contribute your ideas and comments on actions needed in academia in the decade ahead.
To visit the site and post your comments, go here.
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Several Population-environment topic groups have recently begun to appear on Scribd.com. Population-Carrying Capacity members (here) may find an assortment of P-E documents freely available at Scribd.
For educators, students, and journalists, sample resources at Scribd include PowerPoints such as this one and PDFs such as this one.
It is also easy for visitors to Scribd to upload samples of their own articles, papers, PowerPoints, and documents.
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Please examine the apparently unforeseen and unfortunately unwelcome scientific research on human population dynamics that can be found at the following website,
< www.panearth.org >
Thank you.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1176
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This is to welcome Drs. Salmony and Hopfenberg to the forum. They have both written, worked, and published extensively on topics involving population and carrying capacity issues. We thank Dr. Hopfenberg and his wife for their panearth overview of population and food supply interactions, and Dr. Salmony’s forum as cited above “SustainabilityScience.org” contains a wealth of resources and links. We look forward to their insights and contributions.
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This is to suggest that school and community libraries, if they have not already done so, should make it a point to include a copy of Dr. Albert Bartlett’s book The Essential Exponential in their collections.
Dr. Bartlett, who is Professor of Physics and Astrophysics Emeritus at the University of Colorado once famously described the mathematics of the exponential function as “the world’s most important arithmetic” and since the behaviors of exponential sequences are so powerful, deceptive, and counterintuitive (as well as applicable to nuclear detonations and runaway population growth), all of us can learn from Dr. Bartlett’s interesting accounts and examples.
In The Essential Exponential Dr. Bartlett has given us a collection of his many years of published papers and essays on things exponential and demographic and is one the top-ten suggested readings for the times in which we live.
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Dr. Salmony,
Please explain what you find unwelcome about "the apparently unforeseen and unfortunately unwelcome scientific research on human population dynamics that can be found at the following website,< www.panearth.org >". I could find nothing particularly unwelcome about it?
Alan Berryman
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Greetings everyone. A lively discussion on population and carrying capacity issues has developed over at the Population Dynamics Forum (network.nature.com) which many of you may find interesting.
Check in on the Population Dynamics Forum topic entitled The Elephant In The Room and see what is being said. And of course, by all means contibute your own insights if you are so inclined.
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The human species has to re-establish a sustaining balance within the world we inhabit. Balance is vital. But moving forward to reacquire balance cannot occur, I suppose, unless we avail ourselves of the best scientific evidence. Denying something so fundamental and vital as the best science regarding human population dynamics and the human overpopulation of Earth could be extremely foolhardy because this knowledge is necessary for the human community to understand and accept if humanity is to have a chance of reaching a sustainable balance with the world in which we live.
Such a colossal failure to acknowledge good science and respond ably and humanely to the threats presented in our time to human wellbeing and environmental health by the skyrocketing growth of absolute global human population numbers could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe, the likes of which only Ozymandias has witnessed.
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