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The history of more than 80 previous boom and bust societies... reveals how and why Homo colossus is destined for near-term extinction.
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Denial gets a bad wrap, because denial is instinctual.
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Denial is also the instinctual impulse to reject or discount information that calls into question our hopes, assumptions, or expectations about the future.
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Methane belching from the permafrost, the deep and shallow seas, hydrates and clathrates, tropical wetlands.. as well as the millions of wells.
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Homo colossus is Willam Catton's term for "industrial" humanity. That's where each of us uses 20-50 times the resources, and exudes 20-50 times the waste as Homo sapiens.
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At any measuere, absolutely everything that humans rely on... is now in precipitous free fall, unstoppable.
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The biosphere's health has been in decline for one or two centuries, and in runaway collapse... for decades... The Great Acceleration of Gaian Collapse.
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