Generally, you could never get me to click on an entry with that title but you are reading one of my entries and I hope you know that I will do better than the sidebar glowy bouncy advertisements designed to get you to part with something if only your name and e-mail.

I don’t want you to give me anything. But if you could win this million dollars, you would make me very happy, and it would be my great pleasure to meet you, once you’ve accomplished this.

Dick Smith is an Australian. He’s also what you might call, eh, um …, eccentric. Nevertheless the offer is genuine. (He’s also a billionaire.) He will pay you one million dollars to solve the problem of global population growth.

These are the qualifications –

How you can win the award

* be under the age of 30.

* believe in maintaining stable population numbers and a sustainable consumption of energy and resources that do not reduce economic growth.

* come up with and communicate successfully about alternatives to consumption-driven economic growth.

* get noticed in the media for campaigning on such issues.

What do you think? You want the money? Can you face that kind of intellectual challenge?

James Pilant