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Richard Heinberg

Team Human

CHAPTER

Are We the Most Advanced Civilization?

When people got used to living in particular environ s for a long period of time, hundreds and thousands of years, they learned from trial and error how to regulate their own use of resources. We see traditions regulating resource use population growth. As a result, these weretended to bee ly stable populations. The irony here is it's a very young civilization that figured that out, anothy rades. And then we go around thinking that we are the most advanced civilization, when actually we're the babies.

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