“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.” MayProblemNaturalDealsEnvironmentFailingEvolutionBirdResourcesPopulationSolveSelectionNatural SelectionBeavers Book:THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.” IfsWayNeedsShouldDoeEndsProblemRunningOpportunityGrowthResultsGreaterFailingHigherCostSucceedIncreaseOriginalsFinalsPopulationDuesIncomeConsumptionNew WaysBetter OffInventorShortageScarcity Author:Julian Simon
“Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.” FailingPlanetsBattlePopulationPassingPassingsUselessEquityVirusesVaccinesPassing ThroughMutationPandemicsGenetic Mutation Author:Laurie Garrett
“What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.” WaterFailingLandPopulationDietsVeganEfficientVegan Diet Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.” MaySeemsNaturalAnimalNumbersFailingPopulationAbsenceBritainPredatorHeartlessDeerDenseWild AnimalWoodland Author:Tristram Stuart
“Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.” LawIndividualLevelsFocusFailingConditionsRacismIntentionPopulationReformProvenBad Intentions Author:Dean Spade