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Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Unending Expansion of Our Population

In little more than a century, we've expended vast reserves of stored sunlight that had been laid down and concentrated deep in Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years. The extravagant swelling of our numbers and the crazed speed at which we are conducting our lives is tightly bound to this conflagration of stored sunlight. Our inability to notice the other creatures among us, our readiness to shove aside the many of our own kind who are alling or dying as a result of our recklessness seems never to abate. Are we the biosphere's way of exhausting itself? Of bringing on morbid fever? Vomiting precious stores of vitality up into the thickening atmosphere? Like the olf

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