Video of Jesse’s Nierenberg Prize lecture on “Peak Human?”

In this 54″ video made 13 October, 2022 Jesse Ausubel, awarded the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, discusses whether the human species can continue to improve—much…

Reasons to Worry about the Human Environment

Now in print, “Reasons to Worry about the Human Environment,” Jesse H. Ausubel, Cosmos (Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC) 8:1-12, 1998….

Resources are Elastic

JH Ausubel. Earth Matters 46–47 2000 a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.

…Homo faber, the toolmaker, keeps inventing all the time, so that our limits are fleeting. These moving edges confound forecasting the long-run size of humanity. Expansion of the niche, the…

The Environment for Future Business

JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 8 (1): 39–52 1998 This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.

Efficiency will win In this article, I would like to share some surprising insights into the long-term evolution of the human environment and technology that may help diverse industries to…

Visions of the 21st Century

…unprecedented. In nature, Liss points out, there is no such thing as waste. What dies or is discarded from one part of an ecosystem nourishes another part. Liss says humanity…

How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…The ever-widening menagerie is a paradox when an expanding human population, pollution and climate change threaten what United Nations’ studies say is the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs…

More coverage of Why mitochondria define species

The article Why should mitochondria define species? Stoeckle M.Y., Thaler D.S. is now fully open access: DOI: 10.14673/HE2018121037 Coverage in Tekniikan Maailma, Finland: (Widespread genetic research revealed: Human genetic diversity…