Post Carbon Fellow William Rees was quoted in “Op-Ed: Collapseologists are warning humanity that business-as-usual will make the Earth uninhabitable,” an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. From the article: Among the signatories of the warning was William...
Surely it is within our collective imagination to socially construct a system of globally networked but self-reliant national economies that better serve the needs of a smaller human family. The ultimate goal of economic planning everywhere must now turn...
I would prefer to be labeled a realist, someone who sees things as they are, who has a healthy respect for good data and solid analysis (or at least credible theory).
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees keynote address on ‘Unsustainable overshoot’ was picked up in this article in the Richmond News. From the article: “What we take to be the norm is the single most abnormal…period in human history,” said...
A curious thing about H. sapiens is that we are clever enough to document — in exquisite detail — various trends that portend the collapse of modern civilization, yet not nearly smart enough to extricate ourselves from our self-induced predicament. This...
How do we know at what level our consumption is sustainable, and when we’re in planetary overshoot? How do we quantify what the planet’s capacity is to meet human demands, and how much of that capacity is renewable, and...
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‘Overshoot’ is when a species uses resources faster than can be replenished. We’re already there. And show no signs of changing. Humans have a virtually unlimited capacity for self-delusion, even when self-preservation is at stake. The scariest example is...
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees article on the impact of ‘overshoot’ was published in The Tyee. From the article: How might a clear-sighted neutral observer interpret our predicament? First, she or he would point out that on a finite...
Post Carbon Fellow William Rees was quoted in this article about climate objections to the Pacific Northwest LNG pipeline project. From the article: A group of international climate change experts has come out swinging against a massive LNG project...