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unusual facts about Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change



Ghavam Shahidi

He studied electrical engineering at MIT, where he wrote a PhD thesis on "velocity overshoot in deeply scaled MOSFETs", under supervision of Professor Dimitri Antoniadis.

Overconsumption

The term “ecological footprint” refers to the “resource accounting framework for measuring human demand on the biosphere.” A study by Mathis Wackernagel has shown that the global ecological footprint was in overshoot by .4 global hectares per person, or roughly 23%.

The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

The preceding strategies are adapted from William Catton's Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change.


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