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In The Wizard and the Prophet, Lynn Margulis is indeed quoted as comparing humans to bacteria in a petri dish, warning that humanity could overrun the planet and exhaust its resources, leading to collapse. Charles C. Mann opens the book with a quote from Margulis, whom he admires as “one of the most important biologists in the last half century,” a
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
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Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
book, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, which speculates about just how the seemingly “permanent” infrastructure we’ve created is likely to decay in the absence of our maintenance of it. That book adds a beautiful piece to our puzzle, because once you realize how fucked we are, the next thing you often wonder is whether the biosphere will be ab
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The growth machine has pushed humans beyond the limits of our minds—but it is also pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits.