COVID-19: Pandemics and Population Growth
All any of us are reading about these days is the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The Democratic Primary? Harry and Meghan ditching their royal crowns and moving to Canada? It truly seems as if those previously all-consuming stories have been forgotten and replaced with articles about TP altercations, sports cancellations, and how ineffectively we’ve been washing […]
World Wildlife Day 2020: Sustaining All Life on Earth
More than a billion animals died in Australia’s bushfires over the past few months. Animals including koalas, kangaroos, and wallabies—cute, furry marsupials that the world adores. The public outpouring of support to rehabilitate the injured animals that survived the fires has been inspiring. Extrapolating on my own experience, the grief that people felt in […]
A Burning Desire for Beef: Amazon Wildfires and the Brazilian Cattle Industry
As fires continue to burn in the Amazon Rainforest, celebrities express concern and top government officials pledge financial support. The Amazon has an utmost importance to the planet; it’s earth’s largest rainforest and home to a fifth of the world’s plants and birds. Environmentalists worry that the fires will lead to further species extinction and […]
Chennai, India, Experiences Water Emergency; Other Global Cities Face Same Fate
Water scarcity. If the term isn’t deeply familiar or downright dreadful to you at the moment, now is the time to take a step back and appreciate the privilege that comes with having an easily-accessible source of clean, potable water (likely located in your own home). For the past five months, the majority of the […]
What Is the Carrying Capacity of Earth?
It depends. Joel Cohen is the professor and mathematician who most famously tried to calculate a definitive number, in his book How Many People Can the Earth Support? His success was in admitting that he couldn’t determine a sustainable limit for human population because that limit depends on how people live their lives and what […]
