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Puissance d'Humanité: la bombe Rosling
En 1968, Paul Ehrlich, biologiste américain de Stanford publie The Population Bomb . Pour Erlich, la population humaine va croissante, ce qui nous fait courrir vers la catastrophe sur une planète "finie". Nombreux sont ceux qui prennent alors peur de voir le monde dévoré par des milliards et des milliards d'êtres humains.
Ian Angus edits the online journal Climate and Capitalism , edited The Global Fight for Climate Justice , and is co-author, with Simon Butler, of the forthcoming book Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis . Some people believe that deep ecology is not just compatible with ecosocialism, but rather a way to improve it. That’s a profound misconception that ignores deep ecology’s anti-human core.
Ian Angus: Ecosocialism vs. Deep Ecology - Ecosocialists Unite (ESU):
October 4, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Haymarket Books has kindly given permission for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal to publish "Dissecting those 'overpopulation' numbers", an excerpt from the just published Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler . Links ' readers are urged to purchase this essential book. You can order it directly from the publisher HERE ; Australian readers can also purchase it at Resistance Bookshops in their city, or online at Resistancebooks.com . Too Many People? provides a clear, well-documented and popularly written refutation of the idea that “overpopulation” is a major cause of environmental destruction, arguing that a focus on human numbers not only misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the movement for real solutions.
'Dissecting those "overpopulation" numbers', excerpt from "Too Many People?" by Ian Angus and Simon Butler | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Ian Angus is editor of C limate and Capitalism , an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. His previous books include Canadian Bolsheviks and The Global Fight for Climate Justice . Simon Butler, a climate justice activist based in Sydney, Australia, is coeditor of Green Left Weekly , the country’s leading source of anticapitalist news, analysis, discussion, and debate. “This excellent book is steadfast in its refutations of the flabby, misogynist and sometimes racist thinking that population growth catastrophists use to peddle their claims. It’s just the thing to send populationists scurrying back to their bunkers.” —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis | Haymarket Books
Robert Neuwirth is an American journalist and author. He wrote Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World , a book describing his experiences living in squatter communities in Nairobi , Rio de Janeiro , Istanbul and Mumbai . His articles have appeared in the New York Times , The Nation , and Newsday . His second book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy , was published in 2011.
Robert Neuwirth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World: Amazon.fr: Robert Neuwirth: Livres anglais et étrangers
From Publishers Weekly In this superbly probing book, investigative reporter Neuwirth relates the struggles and successes of some of the world's most resourceful poor people, among the one billion urban squatters in countries like Brazil, India, Kenya and Turkey. Having lived alongside them in these four countries and thus gained firsthand knowledge of their daily lives, Neuwirth is able to dismantle many common preconceptions about the so-called slums in which they live. The vast, bustling favela of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, for example, has distinct neighborhoods, apartments for rent, dance parties in the street and local entrepreneurs, as well as drug lords and gangs.
Un milliard de squatters, le nouveau monde urbain Dans son livre « Villes de l’ombre », le reporter Robert Neuwirth décrit ses voyages dans les mégapoles de Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, le Caire et Nairobi. Les images habituelles de violence, misère et insalubrité font place à celles de communautés solidaires, payant leurs factures, résolues à faire de leur bout de terrain « emprunté » un refuge de dignité. Toutes les grandes villes « ont commencé dans la boue », rappelle Neuwirth, dans une enquête qui défie nos préjugés Philippe de Rougemont / DATAS
Agence de presse DATAS : Un milliard de squatters, le nouveau monde urbain
In a mere half-century, the number of people on the planet has soared from 3 billion to 7 billion, placing us squarely in the midst of the most rapid expansion of world population in our 50,000-year history — and placing ever-growing pressure on the Earth and its resources. But that is the past. What of the future? Leading demographers, including those at the United Nations and the U.S.
What If Experts Are Wrong On World Population Growth? by Carl Haub: Yale Environment 360
Paul R. Ehrlich received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Co-founder with Peter H.
Paul Ehrlich / Ecology
Paul Ehrlich summed it up this way: "You often hear people say scientists should not be advocates. I think that is bull." Ehrlich , the Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford, will be elaborating on that theme and several others when he speaks Thursday at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Austin, Texas. L.A. Cicero 'The idea that ecologists shouldn't be advocates, that they shouldn't be telling the public that what ecologists study is basically disappearing, is just nuts,' said Paul Ehrlich, Stanford professor of population studies.
Scientists must leave the ivory tower and become advocates, or civilization is endangered, Stanford biologist says
THE surge in commodity prices over the past decade has revived an old debate. Will mankind’s insatiable demands exhaust the planet’s finite resources? Or will human ingenuity lead to the more efficient use of existing raw materials and the discovery of new sources of supply?
Raw materials: The revenge of Malthus | The Economist
Démographie - Population theorists
Definition of a Cornucopian: A cornucopian Is someone who believes that continued progress and provision of material items for mankind can be met by advances in technology.William R. Catton, Jr. (born January 15, 1926) is an American sociologist best known for his scholarly work in environmental sociology and human ecology . His intellectual approach is broad and interdisciplinary.
William R. Catton, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
so_many_a_second is a visualizer that shows mondial statistics on a human scale. Depicting the ongoing stream of events, this application tries to get the user in touch with the emotional actuality of these objective data.