Paul Ehrlich: “Was the Population Bomb Defused?”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Are We in Overshoot?
The problem is on the macro level, we're in overshoot and then the micro level, our brains are incapable of recognizing and responding to overshoot. At least their tendency is to go in the wrong direction. And it's interesting, for example, you can see something of our hunter-gatherer past in the phenomenon that I call pseudo-kin or some people call fictive-kin. That is, we can't help getting attached to people with whom we have no genetic relationship but if we see them all the time or hear about them they become attachments. But otherwise, how do you explain our fascination with soap operas? The fact that millions of people went to Lady Diana's
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