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John Feeney

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Email: growthmadness [at] gmail.com
 
Address: Boulder, Colorado
United States
 
I Speak: English
 
I Am: Activist, Educator, Journalist, Networker, Researcher, Writer
 
Member Since: August 08, 2007
 
Local Time: Sun Nov 22 08:28:57
 

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I'm an environmental writer and activist. Previously I maintained the website, Growth is Madness!  My new site is JohnFeeney.net.  I write for a variety of publications on the Web and elsewhere. Prior to 2008, my primary areas of focus were population growth and economic growth as they interact with per capita consumption rates and our reliance on fossil energy to degrade the biosphere. I believe these have for some time been the most important, though least discussed, contributors to global ecological degradation.

 

In 2008 I shifted more of my focus to population. It's beginning to be acceptable among environmental writers to question economic growth, but population remains the big taboo and so needs a stronger voice.

 

Still more recently, I've increased my efforts to examine ecological issues from an historical and anthropological perspective, confronting fundamental questions surrounding the sustainability of agriculture and the civilization relying on it.

 

I work consistently to refine and add to my understanding of our ecological crisis and the nature of the human situation on Earth. A large part of that involves working to clarify the relationships and causal connections between the forces driving ecological degradation.

Here are a few past articles:

 

Return of the population timebomb

 

Humanity is the greatest Challenge

 

Six steps to "getting" the global ecological crisis

 

Can ecological economists stop the mainstreamers before it's too late?

When environmental writers are part of the problem


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oblio69 12 months ago
Whatever is, is best
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


I know as my life grows older
And mine eyes have clearer sight,
That under each rank wrong, somewhere
There lies the root of Right
That each sorrow has its purpose,
By the sorrowing oft unguessed,
But as sure as the sun brings morning,
Whatever is, is best.

I know that each sinful action,
As sure as the night brings shade,
Is somewhere, some time punished,
Tho' the hour be long delayed.
I know that the soul is aided
Sometimes by the heart's unrest,
And to grow means often to suffer
But whatever is, is best.

I know there are no errors,
In the great Eternal plan,
And all things work together
For the final good of man.
And I know when my soul speeds onward
In its grand Eternal quest,
I shall say as I look back earthward,
Whatever is, is best.
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