In the following I publish my first talk on Sustainability - Population Dynamics. The talks were given in September 2012 in Glasgow. Population control is a sensitive topic and generates extreme emotional response in different people - partly due to the way most religions favour unfettered reproduction. This was fine when we were talking about a handful of humans on the Earth but now the problem of overpopulation and hence over-consumption can not be ignored. But this is what every body - well almost every body - does.
When searching for solutions, it is always the Earth that is under stress and somehow the humans will be able to find a way to save Mother Earth. This is delusional thinking. Humans are the problem - they are the 'cancer' that is eating away the fabric of the earth and a day will come when the earth will simply remove the irritant and carry on as it has for the last 4.3 billion years.
MOTHER EARTH WILL BE FINE -
IT IS THE HUMANS WHO NEED TO BE SAVED.
An interesting fable demonstrates the power of doubling. Pleased with the musician, the king asked him to choose any prize he wished for. The musician asked for some grains of wheat. He asked that on a chess board a grain be placed on the first square and the number of grains is doubled on each subsequent square. This is what happened:
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