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Is the Next Global Food Crisis Now in the Making?

(July 17) -- Recent weeks have produced a series of grim and related headlines: Russia has declared a state of emergency because of drought in 12 regions, while in major wheat exporter Ukraine, severe flooding may depress crop yields. Dry conditions threaten Vietnamese rice production. The USDA has projected a...

Opinion: Earth Day 2010 -- Celebrating 40 Years of Being Wrong

(April 22) -- For the millions of people gearing up for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, there's a lot to celebrate. Forty years after experts in ecology, sociology, demographics and economics predicted the Earth would be uninhabitable in 40 years, we can happily point out that we are still here and we are doing better...

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How May People Can the World Support? It Depends...

Along the coast where I live, at almost any time of year I love to experience the energies of various migrations of birds and of fish and whales.

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05/08/12 How May People Can the World Support? It Depends... Source: The Huffington Post Along the coast where I live, at almost any time of year I love to experience the energies of various migrations of birds and of fish and whales.
05/06/12 Science or starvation Source: The Spectator - UK Here, for CoffeeHousers, is an extended version of the leader column in this week's magazine.
04/30/12 Technology defies the law of diminishing returns Source: Computerworld One day while observing a lady next to me on her iPad, I noticed how this person was literally condensing an exercise that would normally require a happy shopper all day to complete within a period of 30 minutes at most.
04/29/12 African Game Change Source: Newsweek In the years that lie before us, a great struggle will play out south of the Sahara: a struggle between man and Malthus.
04/22/12 MALTHUS AND DARWIN: The Population Boon Source: Peak Oil As U.S. troops were massing in England for the Normandy invasion, the U.S. Congress engaged in a heated debate about how to avert mass unemployment when millions of servicemen came home at war's end.

Background on Thomas Malthus

The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 or 14 February 1766 – 23 or 29 December 1834) was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography.

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