Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change — Ecological Limits and Civilization
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton Jr. as a systems-level analysis of how ecological limits shape human civilization.
By examining carrying capacity, fossil fuel dependence, and the concept of ecological overshoot, the episode explains how modern industrial society expanded far beyond the regenerative limits of the planet’s ecosystems.
Understanding this system reveals how short-term abundance can obscure long-term constraints — and how many…
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