One could not overshoot a planet's carrying capacity without disaster following-that was what Earth's history since the nineteenth century existed to prove. (Kim Stanley Robinson)

One could not overshoot a planet's carrying capacity without disaster following-that was what Earth's history since the nineteenth century existed to prove.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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