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Richard Heinberg
Team Human
The Maximum Power Principle
Biologists call the maximum power principle, which says that the organism that is able to gain and use the most power is going to be h most successful at reproduction and survival. But there are checks and balances everywhere in nature, from the single cell bacteria all the way up to echo systems. We humans right now are going the wayf you know, the mice and bacteria. As long as we continue doing that, we're basically walking out on the edge of an ice shelf that's about to break off.
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