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The Long History of Profit And Environmental Consequences (w/ Mark Stoll)

The Climate Pod

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The Deliberate Refashioning of Ecological Systems

SBCs deliberately refashioned whole ecological systems to support more of its kind from the same physical resources, unquote. So how far back in human history can you trace the sort of deliberate refashioning of ecological systems for their own benefit? Well, to come up with the whole family homo that every time I read new archaeological studies, I'm discovering that somebody else, even before Homo sapiens, was doing something to reshape the environment. And so a small change in climate, certainly not, they're in deep trouble.

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