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Until the stars are fallen, Tony Marconi

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Until the stars are fallen

Tony Marconi

Homo sapiens is at a precipice, and it strikes me that we're ready to jump off into oblivion. There's just too damn many of us, and those who've got more than enough don't want to give any of it up. I guess, in a way, that makes sense. We're hard-wired to compete for dominance, if not against Mother Nature, then against each other. Humankind will not curtail its use of fossil fuels. It may, in fact, be incapable of doing so practically while still surviving in the civilized world as we've come to know it. But sooner or later our species will run headlong into its day of reckoning. This book is one imagining of how the price of our hubris will be paid