HistoPol, 3 months ago (edited 1 month ago) #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity #ClimateCrisis (4/n) "...meant a much lower #crop yield, but new technologies allowed farmers to #pump water out of deep underground #aquifers. Also, scientists developed new high-yield crop varieties that never existed in nature." "However, this increased #CarryingCapacity [of earth] is an illusion. William R. #Catton, author of #Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, called it “phantom carrying capacity.” "Our ability to feed..."
#Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity #ClimateCrisis
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"...meant a much lower #crop yield, but new technologies allowed farmers to #pump water out of deep underground #aquifers.
Also, scientists developed new high-yield crop varieties that never existed in nature."
"However, this increased #CarryingCapacity [of earth] is an illusion.
William R. #Catton, author of #Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, called it “phantom carrying capacity.”
"Our ability to feed..."
HistoPol