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Overshoot and Degrowth

In the last post, What is Overshoot? I related John Michael Greer’s story of the meadow mice in overshoot.  For humans, the equivalent of the grain truck overturning has been the discovery of ancient hydrocarbons – burnable fossils, first coal…

What is Overshoot?

This essay is the first in a series of posts on the current ecological predicament of Planet Earth.  I am not a scientist, so what I share here are distillations from scientists and other thinkers whom I trust – people…