India since the 16 th century Several historical accounts reinforce the impression that large populations of humans were living close to the environment’s carrying capacity and went through periods of severe food shortages and associated violence and hardship. One such a tale is about India since the 16th century; another one is on Russia in [...]
The story of Easter Island is, rightly or wrongly, one of the archetypical examples of how a human population on a finite island with a fragile environment can overexploit its environment and as a consequence collapse. There are contemporary events which suggest a collapse narrative, as in the case of another island in the Pacific, [...]
The firm house lingers, though averse to square with the new city street it has to wear A number in. But what about the brook that held the house as in an elbow-crook? I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength and impulse, having dipped a finger length and made it leap my [...]