Dream of Sanctuary

LETTERS Written by: Lily Dauphinee Some ghosts haunt us, some serve as constant reminders of what we could have done or been. Some take their…

Poems by Maddie Ketchem

Creative

Maddie Ketchem is a published poet and author whose work is featured in Indiana’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, and the Genesis, Spring 2017 edition. She attended Indiana University and currently lives in Indianapolis with her fiancé and two cats.

MAN-selection

SEXES Written by: Aubrey Conrad The first article in the MAN-selection series addresses the harassment single women experience in public. The term public harassment might…

Overpopulation 1: How Many People Can the Earth Support?

Review of the Quartz Aug 18′ article “We are exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. Denying it is suicidal,” by Richard Heinberg — (author and senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute).

Environmental: Read @ Medium

Written by: m.wilson

Societies Pollute their Environment to the Point of Collapse

According to Heinberg, the earth has a biological “carrying capacity,” which is defined as “the number of organisms an environment can support without becoming degraded.” The existence of this capacity he wrote, holds the consensus among the majority of ecologists. However, despite a likely causal relationship, overpopulation is not discussed in the media as much as climate change for example, as corporations utilize cheap energy like nuclear, gas, oil, and wood to churn out massive amounts of pesticides, antibiotics, and fertilizers for the 7+ billion people occupying the planet.