"In 1800, every human on the planet had a corresponding 80 kg of mammal mass in the wild. Wildland mammals outweighed …"

"Energy has been fundamental to our story of growth. The various hockey stick curves over the last century or so are a…"

"Our fossil fuel bonanza has left our ecosystem in a perilous state. We have destroyed vast forests and habitats, poll…"

"The human explosion has accelerated across the millennia, most recently reaching a fever pitch owing to the employmen…"

"Population estimates are usually based on demographic data alone with no consideration of exogenous factors. This is …"

"As if the Enlightenment was not enough, in quick succession we joined another enormous river. One could say that the …"

"Given the Maoist position that a large population was a “resource”, rather than a burden, for the Communist state, it…"

"What did we do with our fossil fuel bonanza? We exploded population by revolutionizing agriculture [and health]. Now …"

"…fossil fuels allowed us to drastically overshoot the natural carrying capacity of the planet, and that bill will com…"

"We have used [fossil fuels] to expand the human enterprise and population, knock down forests, destroy and fragment h…"