Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Whole Earth Discipline
Why dense cities, nuclear power, transgenic crops, restored wildlands, radical science, and geoengineering are necessary
Stewart Brand, Atlantic Books,
1 October 2010
Overpopulation: 9 Billion Things to Talk About
We have met the enemy, and in our ever-growing, voracious multitudes, it is us! We have nine billion -- or is it 12? -- things to start talking about, asap.
David Katz, Huffington Post, 1 September 2010
A world too full of people
Politicians of western countries avoid talking about population control, but if we invest in family planning we might just save our planet.
Mary Fitzgerald,
New Statesman, 30 August 2010
Is the motor car driving the world to destruction?
Two Billion Cars, like many modern green tracts, mixes demands for restraint with celebrations of techno-solutions to the problems we face. And as always, the restraint wins out.
Austin Williams,
spiked, 27 August 2010
Could anybody bend it like Beckham?
Maybe – if they practised for about 10,000 hours. An Olympic sportsman turned award-winning sports writer argues that the idea of natural talent is overrated.
Mick Hume,
spiked, 27 August 2010
Peer-reviewed journals aren't worth the paper they're written on
"Is it in a peer-reviewed journal?" journalists are meant to ask themselves before launching into another story about rice pudding causing cancer, or chocolate prolonging life. The truth is that peer review is largely hokum.
Nigel Hawkes,
Independent, 21 August 2010
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