Paul Ehrlich: “Was the Population Bomb Defused?”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Is Overshoot a Core Driver of Our Current Challenges?
A third of the greenhouse gas we put into the atmosphere that are changing the climate and desperately threatening our agriculture itself come from the food system. A lot of this is because of nitrogen ammonia fertilizers that come from natural gas over 50% of the nitrogen in our bodies comes from the Haberbaas process. Why don't more people recognize that energy from this carbon pulse is a core driver not only of our affluence and consumption but also our population? It's really pathetic. We have an economics department like most universities where the economists are daydream believers. They think you can grow forever. Well, they're blind in so many dimensions. Yeah, it's a horribly complex and emotionally charged
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