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The Real Inconvenient Truth
Industrialization has enabled continuously improving material living standards for ever-increasing numbers of our ever-increasing human population. Regrettably, however, our industrial lifestyle paradigm is unsustainable; moreover, it is undermining our very existence as a species.
Through our incessant pursuit of global industrialization, we are rapidly depleting the finite nonrenewable natural resources—the energy resources, metals, and minerals that enable our industrialized way of life—to levels at which they will soon become insufficient to support the economic activity levels, population levels, and material living standards associated with our American and global societies.
Industrialization has enabled humanity to accomplish great things. Unfortunately, we are obviating ourselves in the process; we are the unwitting orchestrators of our own demise.
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The Broader Perspective—
a Summary Assessment of Humanity’s Future