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Tag Archives: bottleneck
Catton on overshoot “Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse”
Preface. This post has two articles about overshoot, the actual crisis, not climate change which is just one of about a dozen symptoms (biodiversity loss, topsoil erosion, fresh water depletion, etc) that we’ve exceeded Earth’s carrying capacity. Yet all of … Continue reading
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Extinction has Nearly Happened Before: The Human Bottleneck
Sam Kean. 19 Jul 2012. Blogging the Human Genome Entry 10: The chromosomal evidence that mankind nearly went extinct. Slate.com Take your pick for the cause of our near-extinction—ice ages, plagues, Indonesian gigavolcanoes. But humans have far less genetic diversity … Continue reading
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