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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

To quote John Michael Greer: "Plenty of books in the 1970s and early 1980s applied the lessons of ecology to the future of industrial civilization and picked up at least part of the bad news that results. Overshoot was arguably the best of the lot,....."

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medium · 320 pages

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