Abstract
Humanity’s impact on the planet and its primary resources: water, soils, forests, deserts, oceans, minerals, energy. Our global footprint and its significance to our future. Causes of collapse of past civilizations. Avoiding scarcity and building a regenerative world. The end of mining and new ways to see resources. How to ensure our resources never fail.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet
—Bible, Psalms 8, verse 6.
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This is complicated, but it involves maybe setting price differentials for different water uses, depending on societal priorities.
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Cribb, J. (2017). The Degrader (Homo eversor). In: Surviving the 21st Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41270-2_3
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