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Jem Randles

Thanks for being on top of this, Gary, and attempting to keep the business press 'honest'.

Economists and business people often use a falling % growth rate to imply that population is falling, when what is often actually happening…

1 min readApr 28, 2021

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Jem Randles

Thanks, George. "Complete exhaustion of resources" sums it up perfectly.

1 min readApr 19, 2021

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Jem Randles
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Ending Overshoot

The Last Chimp

Reading an article last week by Laureen Fagan in Sustainability Times, I was hit with a vision of the last Chimp sitting in a cage…

4 min readMar 31, 2021

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The Last Chimp

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Jem Randles
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Ending Overshoot

The Danger of Complacency, Derision & Fear

I share the lower human population dream of Cal Flyn’s Op-Ed in the Observer on 24th January, but certainly not her complacency about “an…

6 min readJan 27, 2021

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Spraying pesticides

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Jem Randles
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Ending Overshoot

Pandemic Behaviour Change Offers Hope

In 2019, who could have imagined that world leaders & governments, including many ‘right of centre’ administrations, would be telling…

3 min readJan 18, 2021

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World leaders in Covid masks

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Jem Randles
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Ending Overshoot

Keep the Tech Genie in the Bottle

This week two stories in the press got me thinking about how we, as a species, prioritise growth and ease of production above protection…

3 min readJan 12, 2021

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Beached Harbour Porpoise in distress

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Jem Randles
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Ending Overshoot

The Existential Threat — BBC’s Jolyon Jenkins misses the mark

In ‘Apocalypse How”’, BBC Radio 4, journalist Jolyon Jenkins “gets to grips with a number of complex and terrifying existential threats to…

3 min readDec 11, 2020

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Comets approach the Earth

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Jem Randles

Jem Randles

Campaigner on environmental issues, the impact of human population & consumption, for 30+ years. Associated with World Population Balance & Population Counts.

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