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We live in ~~a society~~ an ecosphere.

No system but the ecosystem

What does that even mean?

Here's an aspect: https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/nature-in-the-limits-to-capital-and-vice-versa

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People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals (nat.au.dk)
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This is related to the:

Overkill Hypothesis

And the article here is related to this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221330542300036X

Highlights

  • Modern humans (Homo sapiens) drive late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions, with no role for climate change.
  • The strong body-size bias of the late-Quaternary extinctions is also linked to modern humans, not climatic change.
  • The late-Quaternary extinctions represent the first planet-wide, human-driven transformation of the environment.
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