by Barry Phegan | Feb 7, 2024 | Social comment
This post was published in The Marin Independent Journal, Jan 27th, 2024. Global birthrates are dropping. In 50-60 years the world’s population will peak at 10 billion, then fall rapidly. That’s good news and coming soon. Sixty years ago, I was an...
by Barry Phegan | Jan 3, 2024 | Social comment
Accepting Change When I was born the world’s population was about 2 billion people. Back then, tea came loose in one-pound rectangular paper sacks. There was only one kind, black, and perhaps three separate brands. You brewed your tea in a teapot. Today the...
by Barry Phegan | Dec 19, 2023 | Social comment
This is a follow-up to my August 21, 2021 blog where I parachuted into the alien world of COVID denial. This time I tumbled into misinformation, confrontation, and anger. Penni and I recently visited Ohio for my in-law family gathering honoring a member’s...
by Barry Phegan | Oct 27, 2023 | Social comment
(With liberal quotations from the New York Times opinion piece, The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next? 09/18/2023) I don’t know why this news item slipped under the media’s radar. Perhaps because it’s not bad news, and it’s far...
by Barry Phegan | Sep 12, 2023 | Social comment
Penni and I recently returned from an 11-day tour along the Oregon coast to visit family in central Washington. Some “side effects” of climate change shortened our trip. This got us discussing letting go of expectations and (trying to) accept the new realities...
by Barry Phegan | Aug 17, 2023 | Social comment
All living creatures in the natural world evolve biologically and live sustainably. In that natural system there is no waste, everything has its ecological place. Cultural Evolution The emergence of culture, possibly humanity’s greatest creation, stepped...
