This ignores scale. If there were 1 billion humans instead of 8, every impact would be 1/8 as powerful. We are the Plague Species, having quadrupled in the lifespan of living members. We will NOT voluntarily shrink, nor will simpler living by those now comfortable occur by more than a tiny %. It’s wired in life forms to increase energy throughput and expand niches. See: https://www.ecologycenter.us/ecosystem-theory/the-maximum-power-principle.html
Well thanks very much for the earworm – love that song. Now my wife is convinced I’m going crazy and she might be right as I go round singing, without, of course, Nat’s mellifluous tones
Unsustainable
That’s what we are
Unsustainable
Near and far
Like a song of doom that clings to me
How the thought of collapse does things to me
Never before
Has a species been more…
Unsustainable
In every way
And as long as we last
That’s how we’ll stay
That’s why, humans, it’s incredible
That a species so unsustainable
Thinks extinctions
Impossible, too
Tasmania and one or two other places can avoid the worst of it ONLY by working together locally.
When society collapses economists will find a market opportunity.
This ignores scale. If there were 1 billion humans instead of 8, every impact would be 1/8 as powerful. We are the Plague Species, having quadrupled in the lifespan of living members. We will NOT voluntarily shrink, nor will simpler living by those now comfortable occur by more than a tiny %. It’s wired in life forms to increase energy throughput and expand niches. See:
https://www.ecologycenter.us/ecosystem-theory/the-maximum-power-principle.html
What does nature want?
It wants us to leave for good.
Well thanks very much for the earworm – love that song. Now my wife is convinced I’m going crazy and she might be right as I go round singing, without, of course, Nat’s mellifluous tones
Unsustainable
That’s what we are
Unsustainable
Near and far
Like a song of doom that clings to me
How the thought of collapse does things to me
Never before
Has a species been more…
Unsustainable
In every way
And as long as we last
That’s how we’ll stay
That’s why, humans, it’s incredible
That a species so unsustainable
Thinks extinctions
Impossible, too
and round and round.
You’ve made my day…..