Forests to fall for food and fuel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7503304.stm
Bush to Lift Offshore Oil Drilling Ban
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10358/
Above, the BBC and Agence France Presse are reporting on the concept of "drawdown, the process of stealing resources from future generations." For a more detailed analysis of current human behavior in regard to natural resources and the future of humanity and the planet, see Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, by William R. Catton, Jr., 1982, University of Illinois Press.
In this book, Catton defines for us several concepts:
1) carrying capacity: (n) maximum permanently supportable load
2) cornucopian myth: (n) euphoric belief in limitless resources
3) drawdown: (n) stealing resources from the future
4) cargoism: (n) delusion that technology will always save us, and ...
5) overshoot: (n) growth beyond an area's carrying capacity, leading to ...
6) crash: species die-off
Read this book and get engaged in another concept, presented to us by Richard Heinberg in Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, 2004, New Society Publishers. In this book, the sequel to Heinberg's book, The Party's Over, Heinberg encourages us to participate in orderly and democratic ways of preparing for a world with less of everything.
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