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How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution

May 5, 2024

How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution The massive supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago has been blamed for nearly killing off our species. The emerging truth is much more interesting. A dramatic 2020 eruption of Kīlauea was nothing compared with Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, the largest eruption of the past 2.5 million […]

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Humanity’s End Was Determined from the Start

November 22, 2023

Humanity’s End Was Determined from the Start The moment a species learns to manipulate its environment for gain is the moment the clock starts ticking on its demise. Given the vastness of the universe, it’s possible that 1 billion intelligent civilizations exist. So why is there no sign of these civilizations? It is likely that […]

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Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization

April 23, 2023

Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization Highlights •The stable climate of the Holocene made agriculture and civilization possible. The unstable Pleistocene climate made it impossible before then. •Human societies after agriculture were characterized by overshoot and collapse. Climate change frequently drove these collapses. •Business-as-usual estimates indicate that the climate will warm by 3°C-4 °C […]

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Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

December 2, 2021

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse  Credit: Jordan Lye/Getty Images Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1965, when Tom Lehrer recorded his live album That Was the Year That Was. Lehrer prefaced a song called “So Long Mom (A Song for […]

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What Defines Appropriate Technology?

October 5, 2017

WHAT DEFINES APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY? OUR CURRENT ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY If there is one defining aspect of our modern civilization it´s that we are a technological species. Compared to other organisms with whom we share this planet, we Homo sapiens aren´t exactly well adapted to long term survival. We have no coat of fur to keep […]

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The Anthropocene and Ozymandias

August 28, 2015

The Anthropocene and Ozymandias Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene — the idea that Homo sapiens has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene. One remorseless Anthropoceniac writes, ‘Nature is gone… You are living on a used planet. If this […]

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How agriculture grew on us

March 14, 2015

How agriculture grew on us   The Neolithic revolution was neither Neolithic, nor a revolution. — Colin Tudge Human beings of the race that calls itself Homo sapiens lived in relative equality, in small foraging bands all its existence from the time they emerged about 200,000 years ago. Then, around 30,000 years ago, during a bit more clement […]

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