Category Archives: Environment

Bursting point: The World’s Unsustainable Population

Posted on 11 November 2007 by Graham

Bursting point: the world’s unsustainable population from the latest edition of Sustainability Magazine by Graham Strouts www.zone5.org “It is a simple logical truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Overshoot, Peak Oil, Population | 12 Comments

Film Review- What a Way to Go

Posted on 4 November 2007 by Graham

Film Review: What a Way to Go- Life at the End of Empire “If we knew all the facts, we’d have discarded the myth of the techno fix a long time ago. To my eye, our crisis, at its deepest … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, General, Geo-politics, Peak Oil | 4 Comments

Surfing the Collapse

Posted on 26 October 2007 by Graham

Three important reports out in the last week highlight how utterly unsustainable the current human system is, locked in as it is to a process seeking the impossible, the unnatural and the undesirable: unending growth.

Posted in Environment, Food, Peak Oil | 2 Comments

Cool Earth

Posted on 28 August 2007 by Graham

At the weekend I attended the Cool Earth Fair in Dun Laoghaire, part of the Festival Of World Cultures, organised by Cultivate and the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Environment Department, giving a couple of short talks on Peak Oil, and … Continue reading →

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Draining the Shannon

Posted on 19 July 2007 by Graham

Last week RTE played a radio debate between PJ Walsh, a locally based campaigner and PRO of the recently formed Shannon Environmental Protection Alliance (SPA), and Tom Leahy, an engineer with Dublin City Council. They discussed a proposal to extract … Continue reading →

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When the Rivers Run Dry

Posted on 3 July 2007 by Graham

With changing weather patterns leading to extreme weather reports hitting the headlines with ever greater frequency, it seems there is either too much water, as in the destructive floods across the midlands of England and the North of Ireland earlier … Continue reading →

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