#Earth 🌏 Will we survive this ? Amazing⚡️ #crashcourse on #collapse & #environment by #ArthurKeller

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters post it in climate threads as a clear explanation of overshoot and declining carrying capacity.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

NEXT - Les Mondes Sensibles (byThePassengerStudio)

Topic

ecological overshoot and collapse

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• If we wipe out the vast majority of the animal and plant life and drinkable water on the planet, how likely do you think we will keep our population at an all-time high? I think it's certainly possible you're right that population will keep increasing …

• No, our real problem is "overshoot" ( [LINK] ) and the the "Great Acceleration" ( [LINK] ). ‘Overshoot’ occurs when humanity consumes bio-resources faster than ecosystems can regenerate and waste production exceeds nature’s assimilative capacity. Overshoot is a meta-problem: climate change; plunging biodiversity; pollution of …

• > when the alternative is decarbonizing using cleaner technologies There (might not be) enough fossil fuels left, and EROI is falling fast, so the question is whether we'd able to do this before the energy runs out and our economy will be forcibly reduced by …