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Wow. It's almost like humans are governed by the same rules as algae blooms and predator-prey systems, where unsustainable growth causes total collapse on a tim
by xkcd-sucks 8y ago
Wow. It's almost like humans are governed by the same rules as algae blooms and predator-prey systems, where unsustainable growth causes total collapse on a timescale somewhat longer than any individual's life.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoWe are and we aren’t. Both the society and the social creature are co-evolving so the carrying capacity land has for a human can change dramatically due to culture. Of course there is a minimum caloric basis but the world can produce much more than subsistence calories for 10 billion people and has for a long time. Just in terms of murder and calories we are actually no longer constrained by predator/prey. For now.
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoThe long timescales of anthropogenic climate change and ecosystem collapse suggest that this claim is a hypothesis which will take, at minimum, thousands of years to validate.