Tag Archives: World Population

Europe in June: The Schedule of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change

Posted on June 10, 2014 by climatechangefork

By the time that this blog is posted I will be in England on my way to the Netherlands and France, ending up in Reykjavik, Iceland. In Iceland I will attend the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. This is … Continue reading →

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Climate Change: Local Initiatives But Global Priorities

Posted on May 27, 2014 by climatechangefork

Previously, I described an effort to produce a film that monitors an energy transition in the Sunderban region of India. I am the “science guy” in the team and we are now working on expanding the movie to a longer … Continue reading →

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Publishers

Posted on March 18, 2014 by climatechangefork

My book, Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now was published in the early summer of 2011. I wrote it as a textbook for the general public, and it was used mainly for general education – both in … Continue reading →

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Bard CEP Talk

Posted on March 11, 2014 by climatechangefork

Last Wednesday, I did a talk, Desalination as Adaptation as part of Bard College Center for Environmental Policy’s National Climate Seminar. The seminar, which is biweekly, was in the form of a conference call. Unfortunately, this format is completely new … Continue reading →

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Top-Down Stabilization Attempts

Posted on February 25, 2014 by climatechangefork

In a previous blog (February 11, 2014) I summarized some of the current measures being taken to reverse the existing trend of fertility rates lowering to below replacement levels in countries throughout the world. These attempts include restricting abortions (although, … Continue reading →

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Economic Impact of Fertility Rates Below Replacement

Posted on February 18, 2014 by climatechangefork

The golden rule of free enterprise economy seems to be that everything that contributes to economic growth is good, while anything that detracts from the same is bad. The rationale behind this is that as the population grows, the economy … Continue reading →

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Attempts to Reverse Negative Impacts of Fertility Rates That Have Crossed Below Replacement

Posted on February 11, 2014 by climatechangefork

As Jim mentioned in his guest blog (January 14, 2014): Half of the countries worldwide now have sub-replacement fertility. The downside to this trend is shrinking labor forces – a factor which has led some governments to try to reverse … Continue reading →

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Stabilization

Posted on February 4, 2014 by climatechangefork

My latest series of blogs has focused on long term population growth; one of the main aspects has been an attempt to understand the United Nations’ medium projection and the reasoning behind its very large margin of error (December 24, … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rate – the Last 20 Years

Posted on January 28, 2014 by climatechangefork

As I have shown in previous blogs, long-term (I use 1000 years as the “magic” number – see the December 17, 2013 blog) exponential growth (or decline) cannot continue unabated without serious consequences. Lately, I have emphasized this concept mainly … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Fertility Replacement Rates – Background

Posted on January 21, 2014 by climatechangefork

One of the fascinating things in trying to do what I do, be that teaching, writing or lecturing, is to try to anticipate long term future trends, given the ever changing present. Sometimes the present gets my full attention, and … Continue reading →

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