The last day, the last month
It’s been a good four-month run, but I’ve decided to end my experiment with The Daily Monthly. There have been some tremendously satisfying moments in this process, but in the end, there were too many problems with the model to make it sustainable.
Originally, I was hoping that each month’s topic would evolve into a story, [...]
How can we predict world population growth?
Predicting the future is always difficult. Who could have known in the year 1775 that 100 years from then, ships and trains powered by coal would allow people to circle the earth in weeks rather than years? Who could have predicted that in another 100 years, the human voice—and moving images—would be able travel that [...]
Are there too many people in the world?
We’re in a carbon emergency, we’re told. The world is producing too much carbon, and more every year, resulting in possibly irreversible global warming. But take a look at this graph (via Google):
If we’re in an emergency, why hasn’t carbon output gone up appreciably since 1970? The answer, of course, is that this graph measures [...]
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