Originally published on Huffington Post, on May 11, 2012. Most people seem to think that to reverse population you’d need violence, epidemics, or forced sterilization. Actually, you need literacy; read on. Many other people think technology will save us. Probably the greatest technological advance ever implemented to ease the likelihood of population-induced starvation was […]
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How Many People Can The World Support? It Depends…
Originally published on Huffington Post on May 8, 2012. Adapted from: The View From Lazy Point. Henry Holt Co. New York, winner of the 2012 Orion Book Award. Along the coast where I live, at almost any time of year I love to experience the energies of various migrations of birds and of fish and […]
THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT named winner of the 2012 Orion Book Award!
A couple of weeks ago, Orion announced that my recent book, THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Picador, January 2012) was among the finalists for the 2012 Orion Book Award. On May 3 THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT was named the winner! View the announcement here. I could not […]