tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15489764.post7730734574638317278..comments2023-09-28T05:59:22.788-07:00Comments on The Independent Report: Global Population & Global Resources Rapidly Moving in Opposing DirectionsThe Independent Reporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267883671131606244noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15489764.post-6574776232746803042014-05-18T09:23:59.291-07:002014-05-18T09:23:59.291-07:00I printed this out although I am aware of all this...I printed this out although I am aware of all this stuff. I'd love you to read "My Fantasy Talk to Ban Ki-Moon" http://worldpulse.com/node/74437 I'm co founder of 34 Million Friends of the U.N. Population Fund. It's a very nice thing. Big Cheers, Jane www.34millionfriends.org Good Job. read it on the PMC blog. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15598448217344823432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15489764.post-46122184919814380522014-05-18T06:34:24.594-07:002014-05-18T06:34:24.594-07:00The following thesis that traces human overshoot o...<br />The following thesis that traces human overshoot of carrying capacity back to the advent of cultivation agriculture 10,000 years ago.<br /><br /><br />POPULATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- the 10,000 year misunderstanding<br /><br /><br />--or--<br /><br />HOW LONG HAS THE HUMAN FAMILY BEEN ENGAGED IN AN UNSUSTAINABLE RESOURCE DEPLETION SPIRAL?<br /><br /><br />Capitalism and other economic systems that use money/debt have been facilititated by the long-term draw-down of non renewable resources<br />and the incremental destruction of ecosystem productivity that followed the adoption of the ecologically unsustainable <br />cultivation agriculture which has used the soil resource (eroding its mass and depleting its fertility) non renew-ably.<br /><br />The evolution of money systems, that were designed to represent (or be a proxy for) real natural resource wealth, <br />allowed the commodification of natural resources.<br /><br />Unfortunately natural resources are limited --- while the ability to create (print) money / debt that is supposed to <br />represent natural resources is unlimited.<br /><br />As you read John Feeney's short article below, you will notice that there is a link to an OIL DRUM article of mine http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6048 <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-- that deals with the need for population reduction down to a level that can be supported by the long-term productive capacity of the Earth that remains, after millennia of abuse by our exponentially increasing numbers and economy ---<br /><br />--- increasing numbers that would not have been possible without the adoption of unsustainable cultivation agriculture and the unsustainable use of other renewable and non renewable resources.<br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />It may be reasonable to suggest that human population overshoot of basic solar energy-fuelled ecological carrying capacity --<br /><br />-- began as soon as cultivation agriculture began the non renewable draw-down of arable soil productivity by the destruction of self managed tight-rooted perennial forest and prairie species assemblages <br />(MOVING OUT ON THE LIMB OF VULNERABILITY TOWARD RESOURCE EXHAUSTION),<br /><br />-- by migration to new lands as soil productivity was exhausted <br />(MOVING FURTHER OUT ON THE LIMB OF VULNERABILITY TOWARD RESOURCE EXHAUSTION), <br /><br />-- and more recently by augmenting solar energy with temporarily available fossil fuels <br />(MOVING AWAY OUT ON THE LIMB OF VULNERABILITY TOWARD RESOURCE EXHAUSTION). <br /><br />Soil degradation is starting to catch up to us, and there are no more lands to migrate to ---- even <br />as we anticipate the growing scarcity of the fossil fuels that we have relied on to drive the most recent<br />~200 year exponential population and economic expansion.<br /><br />I hope you have time to read an essay dealing with our very long-term (10,000 year) shaky relationship with <br />the ecosystems upon which we are completely dependent -- which suggests that massive population reduction <br />is now away overdue.<br /><br />++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />SEE: John Feeney's VERY SHORT(and well referenced) article entitled:<br /><br />'Agriculture: Ending the world as we know it'at:<br /><br />http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/newzephyr/august-september2010/html/aug10-20.htm<br /><br />This essay deals with the reality of the human condition, and how our willingness to destroy natural ecosystems with population and economic expansion for the last 10,000 years has brought us to the point where serious population reduction (planned and democratically voted for - or unplanned and orchestrated by resource scarcity) is now inevitable in our future.<br /><br /><br /><br />Peter SaloniusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com