"Plunging biodiversity and climate change, along with air/land/ocean pollution, deforestation, desertification, incipient resources scarcity, etc., are the inevitable consequencesâindeed, parallel symptomsâof the same root phenomenon: the spectacular and continuing growth of the human enterprise on a finite planet. H. sapiens is in overshoot, exploiting ecosystems beyond their regenerative and assimilative capacities. The human enterprise now uses the bio-productive and assimilative capacities of 1.75 Earth equivalents. In simple terms, the industrial worldâs ecological predicament is the result of too many people consuming too much and over-polluting the ecosphere. Clearly, the climate crisis cannot be solved in isolation from the macro-problem of overshootâcertainly not by using technologies that are reliant on the same FFs and ecologically destructive processes that created the problem in the first place."
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Megan Seibert and William Rees, "Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition." Energies (July 26, 2021).
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