Archive for October, 2012
Cities and Suburbs in the Energy Descent: Thinking in Scenarios
Monday, October 8th, 2012This article was originally reviewed, edited and published by Tompkins County Relocalization, a group in upstate New York that is researching various aspects of energy descent.
“A city could be defined, almost, as a human ecosystem that grossly exceeds the carrying capacity of its local environment.” – William Catton
The vulnerability of cities and suburbs in [...]
How Many People Can the World Really Hold?
Monday, October 1st, 2012Spreading awareness that the human population is in overshoot of the carrying capacity of the planet has led to a number of attempts to calculate what the true carrying capacity might be. My objective here is not to provide another calculation, but to explore some issues that need to be faced to address the question [...]
