population Archive

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  What can we learn from “The Miniature Earth”? - by frog

  
  
  
  “Appreciate what you have. And do your best for a better world.” That’s the message from this interesting video that presents global demographic information for a world scaled down to just 100 people. More info at The Miniature Earth. read more
  September 15, 2010 6:17 am - 1 Comment
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  Copenhagen Diary #4 - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  Different cultures have very different views on the relationship between population and climate change. In some circles population is the great unmentionable. It is still associated with the coercive policies some early family planners tried to impose. In others it is the perfect excuse for why we should not have to do anything about our [...] read more
  December 17, 2009 12:52 am - 8 Comments
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  Population and Climate Change - by frog

  
  
  
  As greens, it seems pretty intuitive that runaway population growth is unsustainable. That argument rages in back rooms, but rarely gets much air in the media because it is such a controversial topic. read more
  September 28, 2009 10:37 am - 18 Comments
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  Tidying up after TV3′s coverage of our population policy - by frog

  
  
  
  Nigel has a useful comment on TV3′s own website following it’s very poor coverage of our population policy last night: When I saw the item on 3 news reporting on the launch of the Greens population and immigration policies I was shocked. As reported by TV3 the Greens position on immigration and population control are [...] read more
  October 18, 2008 2:58 pm - 39 Comments
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  Population policy - by frog

  
  
  
  I was all ready to write about the Greens’ population policy thinking today was it’s release date.  But, as is often enough the case, I was wrong and it came out yesterday.  So here is southernrata’s write-up from g.blog: Our population policy has been released at last. Having been involved with its development through the [...] read more
  October 18, 2008 8:05 am - 100 Comments
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  Exponential growth - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  Now this is an interesting article about exponential growth. It points out the obvious problems with exponential growth in a finite world and the problems that we humans seem to have understanding what it means. He also has a handy rule of thumb – if you want to find the doubling time of something growing [...] read more
  February 7, 2007 2:48 pm - 12 Comments