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Zero Impact Within Our Lifetimes

Posted on September 30, 2008

This article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The time has come to reconcile ourselves with a fundamental truth. Most of us were already alive when humanity went into overshoot and (sometime in the late 80's) began using up the planet faster than the planet could replenish itself. And many of us will still be alive, when, by mid-century at the latest, we have returned again to being a sustainable, one-planet civilization.Of course, we may prove ourselves to be an evil and criminally shortsighted generatio...

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