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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

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Is There a Name for the Pie That's Growing, but Where Most People Stalk?

We go from half a billion people over whatever, 300 thousand years of homo sapian history, to eight billion people in almost no time at all. We are subsidizing our growth with savings accounts that are finite. And so we get both accumulation dynamics and depletion dynamics. You can't keep running accumulation intepletion dynamics on a finite biosphere indefinitely.

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