Tag Archives: Population

Population Decline: Impacts

Posted on March 7, 2023 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog focused on the dynamics of global population changes, which are determined by the balance of births and deaths. The global population is still growing because births are still outpacing deaths but the near-term (one-generation) trends predict a … Continue reading →

Posted in Population | Tagged aging, global trend, old, Population | Leave a comment

Governance in the Anthropocene

Posted on January 24, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Vecteezy) In last week’s blog, I returned to the definition of the Anthropocene, the name for our proposed new epoch. The dominant proposal for Anthropocene is an “epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Change | Tagged accretion, Anthropocene, Biden, cosmology, Davos, dispersive, Economy, Environment, epochdemographics, Genocide, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Nagasaki, Nazi, nuclear age, Nuclear Energy, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, pandemic, Population, Putin, Russia, Self Inflicted Genocide, Timothy Snyder, Ukraine | 1 Comment

Guest Blog: The Correlation and Effect of Wildfires and Climate Change

Posted on December 27, 2022 by climatechangefork

Hello, this week’s guest blog is from Mohdhar Yafai, Ariel Rukhlis, and Safiyah Mumin. We are all physics majors at Brooklyn College. As a previous blog (October 25, 2022), describes, wildfires are often large and rapidly spreading fires affecting forests, … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Guest Blog | Tagged aerosol, black carbon, California, cause, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, correlation, damages, Drought, Emissions, Extreme Weather, fire, forest, Guest Blog, Guyana, Health, hospitalization, human activity, human contribution, Population, Population Density, Population Growth, Precipitation, rain, rainfall, realty, respiratory disease, Siberia, waterfront, wildfire | 2 Comments

Electric Utilities Through the Lens of the IPAT Identity

Posted on May 31, 2022 by climatechangefork

The last two blogs focused on applying the IPAT identity to sub-country organizations. For obvious reasons, I started this analysis with a focus on oil companies and their supposed commitments to net-zero carbon emissions in the “near” (mid-century) future. One … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Energy | Tagged carbon capture, CCS, Clean Energy, Climate Change, CO2, CO2 emissions, coned, decarbonization, Desalination, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, fossil fuel, G7, Gas, GDP, GHG, global energy transition, greenhouse gas, IPAT, Net-Zero, Oil, Population, Russia, Ukraine, US, utilities, Water Stress | Leave a comment

The Role of Oil Companies in the Energy Transition

Posted on May 17, 2022 by climatechangefork

In last week’s blog, I included a citation from Nicholas Kusnetz’s article, “What Does Net Zero Emissions Mean for Big Oil?” which pointed out: Most glaring is that none of the companies has committed to cut its oil and gas … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, IPCC, Russia/Ukraine, Sustainability | Tagged bioenergy, biomass, BP, budget, capex, capital expenditure, carbon capture, carbon dioxide, carbon intensity, CCS, Chevron, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economics, Emissions, energy intensity, energy transition, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Gas, GDP, Investment, IPAT, IPCC, Koch, Koch brothers, legislation, legislature, life cycle, Net-Zero, Nuclear, Oil, Oil Companies, Paris 2015, Paris Agreement, Plants, Population, Renewable, renewable energy, Russia, Sequestration, Shell, Solar, Technology, trees, Ukraine, warming, Wind | Leave a comment

Robotics

Posted on February 15, 2022 by climatechangefork

Earlier this month (February 1, 2022), I mentioned the steps that Germany and the US have taken recently to remediate the decline in their workforces. Both countries basically declared that they are going to initiate brain drains from abroad (mainly … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics | Tagged age, brain drain, Decline, Germany, Growth, Japan, jobs, Korea, manufacturing, Population, robot, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Workforce | 1 Comment

Population Transition Projections For the End of the Century

Posted on January 11, 2022 by climatechangefork

In last week’s blog, I mentioned a prediction that the global population would peak before the end of the century. This prediction was based on an analysis that was conducted by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged Adaptation, birth rate, childbirth, death rate, demographic, Fertility Rate, Future, IHME, migration, model, natural increase, pandemic, Population, Prediction, Transition, UN, work from home | Leave a comment

Population Transition

Posted on January 4, 2022 by climatechangefork

Happy New Year 2021 was not a great year. We are all hoping that 2022 will be better but I doubt that will be the case. I do think, however, that we will be up to the challenges it brings. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged age, birth rate, Brazil, China, demographic, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, France, global trend, Italy, Japan, Jim Foreit, Pope, Population, Population Growth, Transition, World Population | Leave a comment

Guest Blog: Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang

Posted on December 1, 2020 by climatechangefork

Welcome readers! This week’s guest blog is from Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang. Together, we hope to spread awareness about the correlation between climate change-induced migrations and the national security threats that they create. Although many people may view national … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Guest Blog, immigration, US | Tagged Adaptation, Belize, burn, California, carbon dioxide, Central America, Climate Change, climate refugee, CO2, CO2 emissions, Costa Rica, damage, desert, desertification, driving force, Drought, ecosystem, El Salvador, emigration, environmental refugee, Extreme Weather, fire, fire season, fire supression, fuel, Future, Global Warming, globalization, Guatemala, Honduras, humidity, immigrant, immigration, lawmakers, Mexico, Mitigation, moisture, national security, Nicaragua, Panama, Population, predict, sea level, security, spread, Terrorism, US, vapor pressure deficit, VPD, Weather, wild fire, wildfire | Leave a comment

Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & Other Expected Trends

Posted on August 4, 2020 by climatechangefork

As with most of my blogs, I wrote this one over the weekend (starting Friday). Last week, I looked at the Sierra Club’s Venn diagram of the Green New Deal. I argued that in order to address the near future … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Economics, Sustainability, US | Tagged Arab states, Bahrain, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID 19, Education, equity, essential services, essential worker, Florida, foreign labor, Future, green new deal, Gulf, hot spot, Hurricane, inequity, jobs, Kuwait, minority, Oman, pandemic, pay cut, Population, Poverty, Qatar, Race, socio-economic, socioeconomic, Texas, venn diagram, work force | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Population

Population Decline: Impacts

Governance in the Anthropocene

Guest Blog: The Correlation and Effect of Wildfires and Climate Change

Electric Utilities Through the Lens of the IPAT Identity

The Role of Oil Companies in the Energy Transition

Robotics

Population Transition Projections For the End of the Century

Population Transition

Guest Blog: Jacob Kinnaman and Frank Huang

Inequity: The Intersection of Coronavirus, Poverty & Other Expected Trends

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