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The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee

Inquiring Minds

CHAPTER

The Emancipation of Women

Human population has expanded much more comfortably than any one could have predicted in the sixties. Per capita energy use in britain has declined by a fifth since the year two thousand. People can't afford to have children, and people are putting off having children. All these various growths and recessions are basically against statis among a longer episode of statis. We're running out of resources because we cannot sustain an economy based on growth. This is why human beings no longer works - it's just one species that sequesters all our resources.

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