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The assertion that rapid rates of population growth somehow stimulate economic growth has been made by economists for a long time but achieved prominence during the Reagan Administration. As advocated by Julian Simon, Malcolm Forbes Jr. and others, the...
by populationmediacenter
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 06:49 AM PDT
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with ...
by Rise above the swamp
on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 08:59 PM PST
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I wanted to share a neat event coming up next week Tuesday in San Francisco. Full Circle Fund is hosting an interactive learning event run by Catalyze SV. Focused on collaborative community solutions to the housing crisis, Catalyze SV President Alex...
by Peter Olandt
on Thu Sep 21, 2023 at 05:11 PM PDT
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For many years in Orange county, CA the housing construction industry was booming. Demand was high, and contractors built out housing tract after housing tract. Almost all were single family homes, five per acre. This looked like a sweet deal for the...
by T C Gibian
on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 02:08 PM PDT
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I stumbled on a BBC documentary called "South Africa: On the edge of darkness" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofwx-kyxHq4) a week or so ago. It was a hard look at the South African energy and climate situation where coal provides 85% of the...
by gmoke
on Sat Aug 12, 2023 at 08:49 PM PDT
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China is now leading the world in improving the health, education, income and living conditions of its 1.4 billion citizens. That’s according to the Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which gives 191...
by Alan Austin
on Tue Jun 06, 2023 at 05:24 AM PDT
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First, a follow up on my comment referencing Jean-Marc Jancovici discussing the impossibility of continuing current power consumption trends with renewables or anything else. He also made relevant points about valuation, such as using the space station...
by greenandblue
on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Sunday, January 28th, 2023. This space appears each weekend to give readers a variety of links to local and regional news of interest, and open the floor for...
by randallt
on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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I was born in 1945. That was when newly-invented nuclear weapons brought an end to human history’s most horrible war. Our own country, nearly untouched at home, became the undisputed world leader, while Soviet Russia continued to suffer from having...
by dratler
on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 10:07 PM PST
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We here at the ACM have long discussed circular economics, productivity, ecology, socialism and crazy infinite growth yet always scarce economic models. I have mentioned the need to reconsider contraction, while prolific DK and ACM contributor annieli...
by greenandblue
on Sun Jun 05, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
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VOLUNTEERISM Bodhgaya, India. This weekend we opened our Saraswati Centre’s free primary school and broke ground for Gaia Holistic Orphan Home with Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura, founder. Extreme heat plagued us, with temperatures above 110 degree, but...
by Jamesluce
on Tue May 03, 2022 at 04:13 PM PDT
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Still here at the F.*.C.K.I.T.TM Academy? Congratulations! You are now officially part of the Fear, Uncertainty, and Confusion-Killer Ideas Team. If you missed the introduction, you can find it at (new organization: F.*.C.K.I.T.). If you missed seminar...
by old 60s radical
on Wed Jan 19, 2022 at 02:31 PM PST
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Once upon a time in Colorado, the mountain resort town of Aspen became a playground for the rich and famous. Mansions and ski runs and restaurants and shopping and condos and beds-and-breakfasts and vacation rentals grew and grew and GREW, until growth...
by babushka
on Mon Dec 13, 2021 at 06:00 PM PST
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Imagine, if you will, that you have an extra room in your house or apartment. You can do most anything to the room, but cannot decide what best it should be used for.
What would you use the extra ...
by CameronProf
on Thu Jan 28, 2021 at 03:00 PM PST
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In 2012, then President Barack Obama by Executive Order the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA often called “Dreamers”), giving young unauthorized immigrants the right to seek work permits and deportation relief through the DACA...
by stonehenge
on Sun Dec 13, 2020 at 09:47 AM PST
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I recently posted a story on the devastation wrought by hydroelectric dams on top of climate-change-driven drought in Southeast Asia. The Mekong last year fell to record lows wrecking fisheries and damaging agriculture, partly due to lack of rain and...
by saevans60
on Sat Jul 25, 2020 at 02:46 AM PDT
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What worries many scientists is that ... many places now experience weather conditions beyond anything local ecosystems - or indeed human communities - have evolved to endure. --Justin Rowlett, BBC Those old enough to remember the Vietnam War will...
by saevans60
on Sat Jul 18, 2020 at 01:19 AM PDT
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On a new Podcast called The Blue Continent Podcast, distinguished international trade expert, Simon Lacey , currently senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, discussed America’s global ...
by BlueContinent
on Mon May 11, 2020 at 06:28 AM PDT
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Fortunately, several countries are now getting close to having the coronavirus infection under control and may soon be able to open schools, beaches, playgrounds, restaurants, other businesses and tourist destinations. The sooner the better. We saw...
by Alan Austin
on Mon Apr 27, 2020 at 11:35 AM PDT
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It was a fight of many years over the plans for that little farm. when my parents were young that whole area was farms. Then the 101 State Highway was rerouted and expanded, A marsh area became a man-made ‘lake’ (more like a very large pond). A housing...
by Mollytraveler
on Sat Jan 11, 2020 at 06:05 PM PST
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