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Who would have thought that we’d be listening to a butterfly specialist (known colloquially to beanstockd readers as a lepidopterist) who gave his daughter the same name that Elvis gave his? Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, have just written The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment, which digs into the connections between the food crisis, energy demand and the degrading environment. In an interview with U.S. News and World Report, Paul talked about the effect of the growing population on food and energy—and how the world can’t take it for much longer. Even in Brazil, McCain’s favorite vacay spot for using sugar cane ethanol, energy will eventually be a problem, considering the sugar cane is coming from cutting down the Amazon. “Climate change is a symptom of a systemic failure to understand that humanity is wrecking its environment,” he said. On the bright side, humanity’s starting to own up, and we’re looking at a lot of options
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