John Feeney
Organization:
Environmental Writer
Position:
Environmental Writer , Policy analyst,Author
Areas of Expertise:
Why population growth is a fundamental environmental problem and what we can do about it, why it's been overlooked in recent decades, the politics of population including objections to addressing it from both the left and right, flaws in arguments which dismiss its importance including the widespread argument that we can reach global sustainability through consumption reduction alone, the link between population growth and the "sixth mass extinction, global economic plight and why our view of ourselves as separate from or superior to other species threatens our own well being and that of all other species, how and why the media are missing the biggest story in human history -- the threat, indeed the onset, of global ecological collapse.
| John Feeney (CO): Freelance Writer, his work has appeared in the BBC's Green Room, The Guardian, and more; why population growth is a fundamental environmental problem and what we can do about it, objections to addressing population from both the left and right, the widespread argument that we can reach global sustainability through consumption reduction alone |
