overpopulation
China's Mountain Flattening Experiment is Not Going Well
Who knew that literally flattening mountains to build cities would turn out to be a bad idea?
Surviving Our Shrinking Apartments Means Living in a "Mixed Reality"
Will we need a mix of virtual and physical reality to make our tiny shitty apartments bearable?
Should There Be a Cap On How Many Children We Can Have?
"There shouldn’t be a cap, because of human rights."
The First World Is Destroying the Third World Through Climate Change
To put it bluntly, we’re reaching peak everything. We’ve blown through our one-time inheritance of natural capital (fossil fuels, topsoil, groundwater, biodiversity) like the crazy, hairless apes we are.
World Vasectomy Day is Crowdfunding a Less-Crowded Future
Look out Halloween. A documentarian and urologist are planning a vasectomy-athon in October to save our children by ensuring there are fewer of them.
Will Charging People Money to Have Kids Save the World from Overpopulation?
The world population is set to hit 7.2 billion by next month and estimated to reach nearly 11 billion by 2100, which will put a strain on the limited amount of natural resources the planet has left. I spoke to Michael E. Arth, an urban designer...
Ask The Farm
What is the big deal with plants and animals becoming extinct? Things were coming and going billions of years before we got here.