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We’re in debt to the Earth. How can we repay it?
This Grist article by Syris Valentine, referring to work by Stable Planet Alliance advisors Joseph Merz , Phoebe Barnard , and Nandita...
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Aug 19, 20246 min read
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An open letter to the citizens of Earth
A letter from participants in the Council for a Human Future / Club of Rome Roundtable for a Human Future , 27 July 2024. Collated by...
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Aug 19, 20242 min read
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The crossroads of humanity across scales - inner to global transformation
by Phoebe Barnard, for the Club of Rome's Council on the Human Future Roundtable, July 2024 Photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory. These...
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Jun 30, 20242 min read
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Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future
This high-profile collaborative review by western and Indigenous scientists, historians, futurists and cultural scholars, including...
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May 13, 202413 min read
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Breaking silos: ending the silence on population and reproductive health and rights
A new report by Drs Céline Delacroix, Karen Hardee and J. Joseph Speidel has just been published, with funding from the Weeden Foundation...

Karen Hardee
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists
New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster This article was originally...

Rachel Donald
Jan 17, 20245 min read
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The asymmetry of animal rights fines
U.S. prosecutors have charged more penalties for activists revealing blatant animal mistreatment than they have charged factory farms...

Carter Dillard
Dec 20, 202315 min read
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Cop28 leaves the highway to climate hell wide open
This letter to The Guardian by Prof Christopher J Rhodes and Stable Planet Alliance co-founder Prof Phoebe Barnard was published 15 Dec...
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Dec 15, 20232 min read
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The human behavioural crisis: A critical intervention point for ecological overshoot
Our numbers, our appetites, and our mindsets of human supremacy, entitlement, dominance, status, procrastination and complacency - these...

Joseph Merz
Dec 15, 20236 min read
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Turning at the Crossroads of Humanity
"Maybe Sultan al-Jaber - the United Arab Emirates oil chief executive and president of the COP28 climate summit - will pull a rabbit out...
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Dec 13, 20235 min read
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No need to hold COP 29: Just follow Japan’s lead!
Japan has accomplished the difficult task of reducing their emissions, mainly through its decreasing population. This article by Terry...

Terry Spahr
Dec 10, 20232 min read
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Is a stable planet compatible with wars and nuclear arms?
We know from history, ecology, and evolutionary animal behavior that a crowded planet, and scarce resources accelerate and intensify the...

Eileen Crist
Dec 5, 202315 min read
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The culture of stopping
From the publisher's blurb at John Wiley on Harald Welzer's book The Culture of Stopping - as sent to us by Bill Rees. You can read more,...
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Nov 8, 20231 min read
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Wealth Never Sleeps
Wishing away overconsumption without reducing population or affluence is a denial of math. This piece by Brad Meiklejohn was first...

Brad Meiklejohn
Nov 7, 20237 min read
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Do we need to change our behavior?
This 28 Sept 2023 article by Heated's Emily Atkins and Arielle Samuelson, originally published on their Substack page, focuses on our...

Emily Atkin and Arielle Samuelson
Nov 7, 20233 min read
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Izikhothane: a deeper history of a South African youth subculture where luxury items are trashed
This fascinating piece by Mthobeli Ngcongo and Sifiso Mnisi, faculty respectively of South Africa's universities of the Free State and...

Mthobeli Ngcongo and Sifiso Mnisi
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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Time to look in the mirror
Stable Planet Alliance's founding CEO, Phoebe Barnard, and media advisor, Transmediavision USA director John Bowey, wrote this piece as a...
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Oct 28, 20232 min read
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Shifting a dysfunctional economy: Herman Daly's best writings
Herman Daly (21 July 1938 - 28 October 2022) was a former World Bank senior economist and 'chief popularizer' of ecological economics -...

Brian Czech
Oct 26, 202313 min read
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Why I am not going to consult AI
To what extent does maintaining a stable planet and stable society depend on our finding the right balance between tech innovation and...

Eileen Crist
Oct 26, 20237 min read
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Bill Ryerson's response to concerns of low birth rates
This opinion piece by Bill Ryerson, Founder and President of the Population Media Center, was first written on 25 March 2021, but we...

Bill Ryerson
Oct 13, 20236 min read
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