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Green new deals, ecological scarcity, and the lessons of history
by Edward B. Barbier for TripleCrisis

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The history of natural resource use and development, from the Agricultural Transition 12,000 years ago to the present, suggests that humankind has had to surmount successive scarcity problems:  From Malthusian population-land “traps” to fossil fuel scarcity, and now, ecological scarcity.

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