The Bender Award

We need an award for the science fiction novel of any given year that most forcefully puts forth the case that humans are inherently bad, that anything they touch is therefore contaminated, that nothing can be done to improve humans and that human numbers should be greatly reduced, perhaps to zero.

A setting where someone has implimented such a program only counts if the program is presented as a good thing. ON THE BEACH, for example, presents total human extinction as tragic and so would not be eligible. CITY OF PEARL, on the other, presents humans as a barely tolerable contagion and would be.

Nominations?

The Bender Award

We need an award for the science fiction novel of any given year that most forcefully puts forth the case that humans are inherently bad, that anything they touch is therefore contaminated, that nothing can be done to improve humans and that human numbers should be greatly reduced, perhaps to zero.

A setting where someone has implimented such a program only counts if the program is presented as a good thing. ON THE BEACH, for example, presents total human extinction as tragic and so would not be eligible. CITY OF PEARL, on the other, presents humans as a barely tolerable contagion and would be.

Nominations?

The Bender Award

We need an award for the science fiction novel of any given year that most forcefully puts forth the case that humans are inherently bad, that anything they touch is therefore contaminated, that nothing can be done to improve humans and that human numbers should be greatly reduced, perhaps to zero.

A setting where someone has implimented such a program only counts if the program is presented as a good thing. ON THE BEACH, for example, presents total human extinction as tragic and so would not be eligible. CITY OF PEARL, on the other, presents humans as a barely tolerable contagion and would be.

Nominations?

3.1 Earths

From a BBC article on how much happier than westerners the happy campers on Vanuatu* are:

"The index builds on a report that Nef published earlier this year that warned if annual global consumption levels matched the UK's, it would take 3.1 Earths to meet the demand. "

Can anyone tell me where the 3.1 Earths comes from?


* It's probably churlish to point out that even if they enjoy their lives more than we poor Westerners, they enjoy fewer years of them, by about a decade.

3.1 Earths

From a BBC article on how much happier than westerners the happy campers on Vanuatu* are:

"The index builds on a report that Nef published earlier this year that warned if annual global consumption levels matched the UK's, it would take 3.1 Earths to meet the demand. "

Can anyone tell me where the 3.1 Earths comes from?


* It's probably churlish to point out that even if they enjoy their lives more than we poor Westerners, they enjoy fewer years of them, by about a decade.

3.1 Earths

From a BBC article on how much happier than westerners the happy campers on Vanuatu* are:

"The index builds on a report that Nef published earlier this year that warned if annual global consumption levels matched the UK's, it would take 3.1 Earths to meet the demand. "

Can anyone tell me where the 3.1 Earths comes from?


* It's probably churlish to point out that even if they enjoy their lives more than we poor Westerners, they enjoy fewer years of them, by about a decade.