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Scorched Earth, 2200AD

15 mins | Oct 20, 2019
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Life after the climate crisis where a fragment of society is left to survive. "There are only about 500 million of us left after the convulsive transformations caused by climate change severely diminished the planet’s carrying capacity, which is the maximum population size that the environment can sustain." In this haunting and urgent piece, Linda Marsa writing in Aeon magazine projects humanity to they 2200.

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