Die Erde ist in eine neue „und nicht vorhersagbare Phase der Klimakrise” eingetreten. 25 von 35 Indikatoren für die Gesundheit des Erdsystems haben die schlimmsten je festgestellten Werte erreicht. Eine Gruppe der weltweit renommiertesten Klimafachleute stellt im „2024 state of the climate report“ fest, dass immer mehr Wissenschaftler:innen einen Kollaps der Zivilisation für möglich halten. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/earths-vital-signs-show-humanitys-future-in-balance-say-climate-experts

Bericht: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595

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• for: Malthus - energy extraction, overshoot,
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  • increasing energy extraction via cultural evolution of new energy saving and extraction technologies allows a population to continue growing exponentially instead of crashing due to limits of energy extraction growth.

• Title: Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits
• This book explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits.

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• When
  • human needs
  • individual preferences
  • individual freedom
• are combined, it provides the individual with agency, creativity and freedom to choose a lifetsyle within ecological limits
• Especially when we are collectively in overshoot, we must adhere to such limits
• Limits always exist within any society. There is no such thing as absolute freedom
• However, we have been abusing our ecological freedom and have thereby threatened our own existence by doing so