You probably think of America as the land of opportunity, that opportunity is a good thing. Here’s the definition from Merriam-Webster of opportunism: : the art, policy, or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances often with little regard for principles or consequences I focus on “with little regard for principles or consequences.” Hopefully,…
Category: Population
Conflict Minerals and Human Population
I’m a tech geek. I love computers. I have since my first encounter with them, in the early 1970s. The reason is similar to why I like books so much: the intrinsic value is dense – they have a lot of information in a small volume. I admit that I have too many computers. They…
How many people are there on the Earth?
A climate researcher, Jacob Schewe, wrote an article about climate change and clean water resources, stating that there are six billion people on the Earth, now. This is published in The Conversation, which has a tagline of “Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair”, on Dec. 23, 2013. This misstatement is in the second paragraph. It begs the…