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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by foobarian on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:06PM (#36742469)
But why is over-consumption even possible? It's the plentiful cheap energy in the form of fossil fuels that we figured out how to tap into. Once that is gone I am hopeful the next civilization cycle will be more temperate.
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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by ryandrake on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:19PM (#36742560)
More likely once the current civilization’s cheap source of energy is gone, the next civilization will revert to the pre-industrial source of cheap energy: slavery.
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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by darkerside on Sunday July 16, 2023 @07:15AM (#36745688)
Oof, this hurt to read
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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by johnnymorgan on Sunday July 16, 2023 @03:34AM (#36744498)
No it's not, go read the wealth of Nations to understand.

The over production started before we adopted fossil fuels.

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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by sitkack on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:09PM (#36749902)
Whales made their mistake by being made out of oil.
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