Made in the Schade

KMO welcomes researcher Carleton Schade to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss UN population projections for the 21st Century and whether those claims take things like resource depletion and degradation of agricultural land into account. Carleton explains why we are unlikly to find our salvation in the form of a demographic trend toward smaller families with fewer babies but rising consumption, a technological life-preserver, or a return to the economics of perpetual growth. That leaves a shift in human consciousness, as envisioned and described by Jeremy Rifkin, as the only remaining candidate visible on the scene.

Music by Critter Jones