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Malthus thesis was that populations grow exponentially, whereas resources grow linearly, thus population will relatively soon overshoot the available resources. Malthus was also an…

Speaking of US and China, obvious candidates are immigration policy and one-child policy. Other levers: female education, child mortality reduction, shift in cultural norms towards…

We are comparing energy / sqmi. US and China have similar landmass . 3.8M sqmi vs 3.7M sqmi. Comparing their total energy consumption is, up to a constant factor, the same as compa…

US and China have relatively similar land masses, thus arguably similar levels of available resources. China happens to have a population 4.2 larger than US, thus 4.2 lower per cap…

The author needs to familiarize himself with the concept of MTBF. It's surprisingly short for high order artifacts. Entropy will introduce errors and break down every single high o…

The solution to climate change requires indeed keeping large numbers of people poor and making existing people poorer. And it will fail indeed because of populist backlash. We shou…

To a first, second and third approximation: poor = small energy footprint rich = large energy footprint Assuming the problem is that the global energy consumption is too large, the…

The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed to grow more money . Money is fungible, if beef were banned they's cut the forest to do something else with the land.

https://matadornetwork.com/read/mapped-united-states-canada-... The name sounds nordic. Oslo, Stockholm & Helsinki would end up with a climate similar to Northern Manitoba. I tried…

While the SUV-driving crowd is stomach churning, it is also small in the big picture. The huge elephant in the room is global population size, moving apace toward 10 billions and p…

A. The per capita approximation means the whole world has to be brought at third world status. At projected 2050 population levels of 10b, and 25GT/year emissions, per capita emiss…

The vast majority of companies ask for a 'we own everything you breathe' agreement as a prerequisite for employment. The vast majority of employed software engineers don't have the…

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event . > Such negative values occurring shortly after the GOE require a rapid reduction in primary productivity of >80%, alt…

Your suggestion is probably the correct solution technically speaking, as it funnels the screen reader I/O stream through browser APIs. The immediate objection is that most popular…

> For blind people, TTS settings are very personal. Is there a whitepaper that articulates concrete solutions to reconcile the myriad flavors of screen reader configurations with B…

40 years of ecosystem recovery from a vantage point (Landsat) in a 6 minute video about Mt St Helens post 1980 eruption: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13614

1000 sqmi of rewilded land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone

Subsistence agriculture? Slums? Manhattan hyper density? Cuba (2.68), Tunisia (2.60), Ecuador (2.43), Egypt (2.32), Brazil (2.25), Vietnam (2.20)?

Under climate emission targets & global equity assumptions, western (#) lifestyle must end. In political terms, the western middle class lifestyle must end, the global elites will …

In the old days errors came with error codes. This helped searchability using an index in a printed manual, but also Google. Unfortunately people are not good at pattern matching r…

Unionize.

Ambiguity. 95% of the cases you forgot the semicolon, the other 5% you forgot something else.

No, developers don't read compiler error messages, unless absolutely necessary. The economics doesn't work out: the compiler creates hundreds of error messages in a few millisecond…

Inflation with a chance of hyper.