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PowerPoint 1 - The Numerics and Demographics
of Our Current Population Trajectories

The humanitarian, civilizational, and biospheric implications
of our current demographic trajectories (daily births, deaths,

and net increase, for example, and "the riddle of a Billion
homework questions").

(Hint: The answer is 38,461 years.)

To download, click ppt 1 below

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PowerPoint 2 - Climate, CO2, Human Population
Growth, and "the Open-space Delusion"

This PowerPoint addresses the humanitarian, civilizational, and

biospheric implications of our current demographic trajectories,

including climate, CO2, "the open-space delusion," outbreaks

of red-tide in populations of marine dinoflagellates, and 99%

mortality events in climb-and-collapse population events.

To download, click ppt 2 below

ppt 2

Speaking a half-century ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once addressed "the modern plague of overpopulation.

What is lacking, " he said, "is ...universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of billions of people who are its victims."

Today, his insights are more applicable than ever.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - WHY WECSKAOP?

Chapter 2 - NUMERIC LITERACY: A MILLION and a BILLION

Chapter 3 - CIVILIZATION’S DEMOGRAPHIC JOURNEY

Chapter 4 - CARRYING CAPACITY and LIMITING FACTORS

Chapter 5 - ECOLOGICAL SERVICES and ECOLOGICAL RELEASE

Chapter 6 - FRAGILE FILMS - EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE and SEAS

Chapter 7 - EXPONENTIAL MATHEMATICS

Chapter 8 - A MATHEMATICAL FIRE ALARM

Chapter 9 - RIDDLES of the DINOFLAGELLATES

Chapter 10 - OTHER PLANETS

Chapter 11 - THE OPEN-SPACE DELUSION

Chapter 12 - LIMITS, FEEDBACKS, OVERSHOOT, and COLLAPSE

Chapter 13 - THRESHOLDS, TIPPING POINTS, and UNINTENDED
CONSEQUENCES

Chapter 14 - THE BIG QUESTION

Chapter 15 - PROJECTIONS, COMMENTS, and CRITIQUES
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Chapter 16 - SRI LANKA and Caenorhabditis elegans

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Chapter 17 - BIODIVERSITY and HUMAN IMPACTS

Chapter 18 - THE PALEOLITHIC, the NEOLITHIC, and NOW

Chapter 19 - A CONSERVATION ROADMAP

Chapter 20 - HUMANITARIAN SNAPSHOTS and A DESCENT INTO CHAOS

Chapter 21 - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Chapter 22 - WHAT WE CAN DO

Cchapter 23 - FLOORSPACE and CORNUCOPIAN ECONOMISTS

Chapter 24 - EIGHT ASSUMPTIONS THAT INVITE CALAMITY

See more at these related sites:

Population Growth and the Open-Space Delusion

Longevity, Fertility, and the Demographic Transition

Ninety-nine key understandings for the half-century just ahead...

and eight assumptions that invite calamity

WECSKAOP

What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet

List $22.95 ISBN 978-0-933078-18-8

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