We often talk about the imperative to bring electrification to the rural parts of the developing world. Energy is a gateway to education, and education is a gateway to prosperity, environmental conservation, as well as stronger and smaller families. This …
Tag: overpopulation
Scarcity, Sustainability, and Shell Oil
Regarding my post: Shell Oil Has an Indefensible Position, But At Least (I Believe) It’s Trying, a reader suggests that I check out the book Abundance, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, and summarizes it as follows: It offers the only …
Jared Diamond's "Collapse"
In the course of the few years that 2GreenEnergy has been doing its thing, I’d estimate that at least two dozen people have asked me what I think about Jared Diamond’s writing — especially his book “Collapse.” I always reply …
Tagged with: anthropogenic climate change, book “Collapse”, deforestation, environmental issues, environmental problems, fossil fuels, global climate change, global warming, habitat destruction, Jared Diamond, melting of icecaps, overpopulation, rainforests, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, sea level rise, soil fertility loss, water management
