"Above all, and most immediately, we face the end of the cheap fossil fuel era. It is no exaggeration to state that re…"

"What is... not comprehended about this predicament is that the developed world will begin to suffer long before the o…"

"It has been estimated that the world human population stood at about one billion around the early 1800s, which was ro…"

"Malthus… has been the whipping boy of idealists and techno-optimists for two hundred years. His famous essay proposed…"

"Malthus was certainly correct [that demand will outstrip supply], but cheap [and easy-to-find hydrocarbons like coal,…"

"We are already experiencing huge cost externalities from population hypergrowth and profligate fossil fuel use in the…"

"The high tide of the... [industrial] age also happened to be a moment in history when human ingenuity gained an upper…"

"At the same time, the world is overdue for an extreme influenza epidemic. The last major outbreak was the 1918 Spanis…"

"The so-called global economy was not a permanent institution, [...] but a set of transient circumstances peculiar to …"

"It has been... hard... to make sense of the gathering forces that will fundamentally alter the terms of everyday life…"