Dis the Threat Industry

JH Ausubel. Technological Forecasting and Society Change 62 (2): 119–120 1999

The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…some of the likely main components of the program. History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) In 1497 English fishers returned from Newfoundland with news that “the sea there is swarming…

Fox TV report on DNA House Project

Fox TV reported 23 February 2010 in their evening news on the discoveries of the DNA House project of Brenda Tan and Matt Cost in a well-composed video by reporter…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…main prospective cause. The continuing, steady decarbonization of the energy system means that the concentrations of carbon dioxide will not rise much above 500 ppm, about 40 percent above today’s…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

English and explained that I had to have a Ukrainian coupon along with the rubles. The coupon system instituted in October 1990 to keep goods within the Ukrainian Republic appears…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…60 to 70 years the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s USA corn grower, the 10 billion people likely to live on Earth will need only half of…

Toward Green Mobility: The Evolution of Transport

JH Ausubel, C Marchetti, PS Meyer. European Review 6 (2): 143–162 1998

…poles. Even today human rickshaws carry freight and passengers in Calcutta and elsewhere. Horses can run faster and longer than people. They can sustain 20 km per hour for several…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…climate, topography or other local conditions. Great parts of the new worlds were dedicated to cultivation of single crops to supply world markets and to smooth availability through the year….