#ArtificialWombs #Ethics #Biotechnology #ReproductiveTechnology
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...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
A mass #Ex
... Show more...#ArtificialWombs #Ethics #Biotechnology #ReproductiveTechnology
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...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
A mass #ExtinctionLevelEvent (#ELE) began decades ago, and species are...
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047736480954983
#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..."