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.

Today I'm focused more specifically on population. It's beginning to be acceptable among environmental writers to question economic growth, but population remains the big taboo. It is the topic, then, to which I lend my voice.

Some of my attention goes to debunking erroneous arguments from those who deny the fundamental population-environment link. Some goes as well toward examining key ecological issues such as the Sixth Extinction and historical causes such as the problem of agriculture.

More broadly, I work consistently to refine and add to my understanding of our ecological crisis and the fundamental 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 articles:

Return of the population timebomb

Population and the ecological crisis

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

Earth needs renewed attention to human population growth