simple: whether we know it or not, we have organized our societies, industries, and economies on the basis of the Holocene environment, and therefore if we breach the operating levels of the key environmental systems that have sustained it all these years, we could flip the planet into a new state that could make it impossible to maintain modern life as we’ve learned to enjoy it. It was the equivalent of imagining Mother Nature as a healthy person and then identifying the optimal range of weight, cholesterol, blood sugar, fat, oxygen intake, blood pressure, and muscle mass to ensure that she
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