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#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..."