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.

…to ease comparison, normalized to 1940 (that is, 1940 = 1 for every material). Source: Wernick et al., Daedalus 125(3), 1996. Modern examples of dematerialization abound. Since the early 19th century, the ratio…

Visions of the 21st Century

…Nov. 15-16th. (available via RealPlayer G2 streaming media).* no longer available, contact phe@rockefeller.edu if you wish more information.) From Time Magazine‘s Visions of the 21st Century web report. Can We…

How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…he said. The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a study by more than 1,300 scientists, estimated the number of identified species at 1.7-2 million with the final total likely to be…

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…