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Taking it further, I think this offers a glimpse at part of what has gotten us to this place in natural history, as well as how we may be able to get ourselves through it.Part of the reason we've let climate change happen is that we've long thought that the world was so vast that human activity couldn't possibly influence it on a global scale. There was always someplace to go. The key difference between historical human influence and its current form is that there is no mountain range to move past, no fresh fishing ground, no place to dump waste that doesn't already have waste in it or isn't occupied in one way or another.We've long thought that the world was so vast that human activity couldn't possibly influence it on a global scale.
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