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New York Times: It’s no surprise that Erle C. Ellis, an ecologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, faced resistance when The Times published his Op-Ed article titled “Overpopulation is Not the Problem.” After all, his views clash with decades of assertions that we’re in “overshoot” as a species, sucking up far more resources than the planet can continue to offer. His answer to my enduring question here — “Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak us?” — is the latter. We are different than bacteria......
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An Ecologist Explains His Contested View of Planetary Limits
Posted by New York Times: Andrew C. Revkin on September 16th, 2013
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