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If you think of a plague of locusts or a plague of mice or frogs or whatever, every species, when it is situated in an environment 00:39:06 which for whatever set of juxtapositional reasons is favorable to the expansion of that species, it will explode and expand. And humans are no different. With fossil fuel, we acquired the ability to exploit the planet and provide all the other resources needed to grow the human enterprise to realize for the first time in human history, our full exponential growth potential.
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- If you think of a plague of locusts or a plague of mice or frogs or whatever,
- every species, when it is situated in an environment<br />
which for whatever set of juxtapositional reasons is favorable to the expansion of that species,
- it will explode and expand.
- And humans are no different.
- With fossil fuel, we acquired the ability to exploit the planet and provide all the other resources needed to grow the human enterprise
- to realize for the first time in human history, our full exponential growth potential.
- up until about the industrial revolution, we were held in check by negative feedback.
- The positive feedback tendencies of the species shared by all other species was held back by resource shortages, disease, war, and all of that stuff.
- Well, fossil fuel temporarily relieved us of that, and we exploded just as a plague of locusts explodes during a favorable environment.
- But then what that explosion does is deplete the resources and it crashes.
- So I think we're on a one-off population boom/bust cycle, which is completely natural.
- It just, it's never happened to humans before on a global scale
- it has many times before on a local scale. But this time it's a global thing.
- It's natural, it's going to happen, get used to it.
- And Rex is right. Don't panic. Start taking care of what you can in your immediate environments.
- every species, when it is situated in an environment<br />
which for whatever set of juxtapositional reasons is favorable to the expansion of that species,
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