grandparents were made of different stuff entirely. Without really noticing it, you’ve switched from eating plants and animals to being proxy detritivores. It may seem to you like a good plan, but it’s setting up the same deal the wine yeast had, because you’ve switched to eating stuff which stopped being made over 200 million years ago, and is thus as finite as the sugar in a corked wine bottle. The recent exponential population rise exactly parallels that of yeast growth. And it turns out the yeast in a wine bottle have a really bad plan when it comes to wine bottles (but being single celled they never regret it). The yeast aren’t aware of the walls of their bottle. Humans aren’t yet aware of the walls of their bottle, either. Will human brains learn to see those walls, or will evolved bias and belief cause you to continue rationalizing away their existence? 7.7 billion and counting. Skol!
The Bottom Line: Since discovering fossil energy, our population and consumption have increased exponentially.
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