"Meanwhile, fierce competition among global self-prop systems will have led to such drastic and rapid alterations in the Earth's climate, the composition of its atmosphere, the chemistry of its oceans, and so forth, that the effect on the biosphere will be devastating."
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is a book by Theodore Kaczynski. The first edition was published in 2016 by Fitch & Madison Publishers.
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