#phantomcarryingcapacity — Public Fediverse posts
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...👉There simply is no other possibility if we are to withstand once more the #Kassandra predictions👈 like mine here, or e.g. quite some time ago, about the #Overshoot, the #PopulationBomb, the #GreenRevolution, and the importance of the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047709692840344.
As I summed up in this in this thread here, I guess, is the best example of 👉the imminent reality of this #PhantomCarryingCapacity is deep-well...
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It all became very clear to me, when I read this insightful article about #Overshoot:
[CW: This is a quintessential article, however, I strongly recommend *not* reading it if you're suffering from a depression, etc.!]
After further reading and contemplation, I wrote this thread about the the #PhantomCarryingCapacity and the quintessential #SecondGreenRevolution:
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#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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...That said, there is a lot we could do, apart from #PopulationControl, rethinking building construction (e.g. using #WindCatchers*), but first and foremost, a #SecondGreenRevolution, using a combination of #Agrivoltaics and #WaruWaru:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110624369550177707//
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#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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...the #ExtinctionLevelEvent will most likely not be limited to plants and animals...
(2) https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/23/is-there-enough-metal-to-replace-oil/
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#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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"...is created this way. There is 👉no substitute.👈 This is why fertilizer prices (and thus, food prices) are getting higher and higher, because #NaturalGas has gotten so expensive..."
Instead of using natural gas exclusively for fertilizer production, we are just "firing away"
Humans have essentially painted themselves into a corner." (1)
Another #overshoot seems hard to avoid.
This time, the
#PhantomCarryingCapacity... -
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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"...about #oil is [in contrast] that all of the #energy is already stored inside of it." (1)
"Is There Enough Metal to Replace #Oil?" asked #RobertHunziker in 2022.
"The short answer: No, not even close!" (2)
And then, there's the food issue:
"About 👉50% of the world’s #food production depends on #fertilizer👈 that...
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#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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"...8 billion people is 👉completely dependent on #FossilFuels👈 such as #oil and natural #gas."
"Without plenty of affordable energy, we cannot continue to grow our population or even maintain it."
"...all this #GreenEnergy requires another finite resource:
#RareEarthMetals. The great thing..."
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#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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"...anticipate the #GreenRevolution, which took off in the 1970s.
👉#Farmers began to use new chemical #fertilizers such as #phosphorous and #ammonia (which is derived from #NaturalGas), and #agrochemicals such as #pesticides and #herbicides [#oil derivatives]).👈
In addition, they began to use new types of #farming equipment that mechanized #cultivation and harvesting.But that’s not all. In the past, a #drought...
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#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
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"...In an early edition, the preface read:
“The battle to feed all of #humanity is over. In the 👉1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death👈 in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
"#Ehrlich was [only] wrong because he didn’t..."
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* #ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity *
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The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.
If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul and Anne #Ehrlich wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"... -
#BigOil has brought humanity to the brink, heating up the globe and creating the illusion that it could be fed. This is called the #PhantomCarryingCapacity.
Some scientists think that #overshoot has already happened:https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110521005050210310
I agree, if you throw in the #nationalization of #BigOil to pay for the #EnergyTransition and damages.
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This depends on the country (#CarbonBudget):
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110723585564071989
Furthermore, there are 9 known #TippingPoints so far (7 here):
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111541294917227129
"Major climate tipping points could be triggered within a decade:"
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111541302400354972
But yes, #overshoot already happened. The #GreenRevolution created an illusion which led to a #PhantomCarryingCapacity of Earth: