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nd Collapse in population

ingly “vast open-space” conditi

held MISPERCEPTION within ation growth and overpopulati ng as “

va st am ou nt s of op e

ava il abl e. Suc h “ope n-s pac e da ng er ou s b ec au se th ey te pl ac en cy . In th i s re sp ec t, p di nof la ge ll at es suc h as

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and may have something to ses ses th ese sed uct ive , but e” supp ositi ons math emati cal d i s t ra c t u s f ro m t h e t ru e d curr ent tr aje cto ri es inv it e. It r s p e c i e s i s cl o s er i n t i m e t il iz ati onal , and bi osp her ic ou llo moon missions and the Vie

1951

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bove summarize the results r herds (Scheffer, 1951; and re in this collection. In each c wth was followed by a catast h a 99% die-off.

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our societies n cannot be

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tell us about eeply-erron- l y – l e s t w e g re e o f t h e may be, for calamitous tco mes tha n nam war.

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1968

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