Circumstance: the age of exuberance is over, population has already overshot carrying capacity, and prodigal Homo sapiens have drawn down the world's savings deposits.
Consequence: all forms of human organisation and behaviour that are based on the assumption of limitlessness must change to forms that accord with finite limits.
William R. Catton
Overshoot: the ecological basis of revolutionary change, 1982
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