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i think this book would disagree with you that "our system is working reasonably well". the point is that we are living like man is the master of the world and not subject to ecological laws like "if your population gets too big there won't be enough food and there will be some famine until your population drops again". instead of this we keep trying to feed everyone (= more starving people every year) by corporatizing farming so that animals are crammed in a small of space as possible, fed shit & ground up other animals, etc., while at the same time tearing down the rainforests to make more farms -- basically killing everything that isn't us or the things we eat or the things they eat. this is a bad strategy because there won't be enough diversity left to survive the the next nasty virus or ice age that comes along, and cripples evolution.