Earth Island Journal articles

Recent articles from Earth Island Journal

A numbers game.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
June 22, 2009... At least since the days of Malthus, people have wondered when the planet will be too full of people. During the last several generations as the number of humans has grown exponentially and our use of resources has skyrocketed the question has taken on particular force. This place can feel...

What about the gators?(LETTER & E-MAILS)(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2009... I grew up in Canada and thought the article about the annual Canadian seal hunt ("Kill Them with Kindness," Around the World, Spring) took a very complicated issue and reduced it to a one-note shriek. If the hunt were to stop, what would the people who depend on the hunt do for a living?...

Ecological economics.(LETTER & E-MAILS)(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2009... Elaine Miller Bond's article "Net Benefits" (Spring) illustrates what is wrong with efforts to correct many environmental problems in this case, overfishing. Capitalism encourages behavior motivated by greed. It should be no surprise when overfishing or pollution occurs. Providing fishermen...

ITQs an investment mess?(LETTER & E-MAILS)(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2009... Your article on individual take quotas ("Net Benefits") swallows the arguments in their favor hook, line, and sinker, when some probing would reveal that ITQs are more than a little fishy. Take the analogy to cap-and-trade systems: Emission reduction schemes are successful because the cap is...

Peak bagged.(LETTER & E-MAILS)(Letter to the editor)
June 22, 2009... Thank you for the article "For Peak's Sake" (Spring) about the effort to rename the 14,000-foot North Palisade in the Sierra Nevada after Dave Brower. I first climbed the peak at age 17, in 1939, with Dave himself. It was also in 1939 that Dave made the film The Skyland Trails of the...