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Community Action, Government Leadership Needed on Sustainability To Prevent Societal Collapse

Published by: System
in Climate Change, Issue 15 & 16, Volume 17
By Elona Malterre

              The global “techno-industrial society” will collapse because the human species is genetically and culturally programmed to act in ways that are unsustainable, says the expert who coined the term “environmental footprint.”

              The world’s population is too large to support the current lifestyles of individuals who live on the planet, William Rees, a professor of population ecology at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning, said in a keynote talk to the Trudeau Foundation’s 2007 conference.

              “Degradation and depletion (are) really a measure of humanity’s evolutionary success,” he said. Humanity’s “biological predispositions are being…

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