http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/25/a-faustian-choice-population-and-environment/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/25/a-faustian-choice-population-and-environment/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:50:38 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=28259 Population growth is a key contributor to the pressures pushing at our planetary boundaries. In Rio+20 discussions, implications of population growth have become shrouded in platitudes. It is important that discussions on planetary limits clearly lay out possible strategies that can alleviate these pressures.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/25/a-faustian-choice-population-and-environment/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:16:42 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=25614 As the world population grows toward 10 billion, consumption of water, food and energy is expanding at a rate that cannot be maintained without depleting the planet’s resources. If we fail to address these two issues together, we face a grim future of economic, social and environmental ills, warns a new report prepared by a group of scientists and other experts for the Royal Society.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/feed/ 2