Resources for Culture & Environment

Malthus and neo-Malthusianism

• Complete text of First Essay
• Intl. Malthus Society
• "Greens Stupid on Overpopulation"
• Newsweek article on Lester Brown's latest malthusian claim
• Overwhelm the Earth? (8 Dec 98 NYT piece on Malthus)
• WorldWatch Inst (neo-malthusian, the sky is falling)
• Malthusian interp of GLF

Simon

• Simon site
• The Ultimate Resource text
• "Life Has Never Been Better"
• Ehrlich et al. challenged Simon to different bet (from dieoff.org)

US Agriculture etc.

• Crop Insurers make a killing by preventing competition
• Large setaside payments to non-farmers
• Rice Termninology
• N. Dakota farms closing down
• Acreage reductions in the US by program, 1933-98
• Acreage reductions in the US by crop, 1978-94
• Recent report on US land-use

Famine

• images of Stalin's famine

Crop Biotechnology

• Ag Biotech Infonet
• 7/16/99 Plant Revolution issue of SCIENCE

Demography

• The Baby Bust in Europe
• The Population Explosion Is Over
• Demographic, Environmental, and Security Issues Project

Rainforest

• Sago processing (commercial)
• Amazon deforestation

Images

• Savannas

Misc

• Timucuan cultural evolution