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Through a Glass, Darkly
By Stephen Pizzo (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
(Worldpopulationbalance.org)
Those are the hard numbers, and the hard truth. The hardest among those truths is not just the unsustainable nature of human consumption, but the unsustainable size and growth of the herd itself. Paleontologists spend their professional lives chronicling the rise, reign and extinction of entire species. The record is unabiguous on what happens when a species fails to adapt quickly enough to new realities on the ground. The bottom line: No species has ever survived beyond the earth's ability to support its most basic needs.
And so here we are. I was born at the dawn of the age of superabundance and will spend my final years experiencing the new age of scarcity. I'll make it through okay, but I worry deeply about my kids and grandkids. At the very least they will have less, a lot less.
As for the human species itself, well, the only unknown there is whether or not we will adapt and downsize fast enough, before all the environmental messes we created supporting the age of superabundance render that issue -- our issue -- moot.
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