Antarctica, Greenland ice definitely melting into sea, and speeding up, experts warn

[NoOneMan]

25. "Why *practice agriculture*, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"

Said a Kung Bushman in the 1960s.

No, hunter-gatherers do not practice agriculture when they become too good at hunting (or we would have seen a mass, synchronous exodus). Instead, they practice leisure and keep their populations in relative statis. I will posit that overshoot is not viewed as positive trait by evolution in any species, evidenced by the very lack of species today that exhibit overshoot behavior. Animals evolve to be as energy-efficient as necessary in their environment to exist and reproduce, but not so much more that they cause ecological break-down (resulting in an ultimate deselection of that trait).

The reason hunter-gatherers convert is not because they are "too-good", but its because of encroaching agriculturalists are so much "better" at energy exploitation that they destroy the natural carrying capacity of the land. Those who convert from a communal 20 hour work week of self-sufficiency to an enslaved 40+ hour week of "capitalistic" dependence do so at knife-point if given the opportunity at all.

And no, we are not well-prepared in an evolutionary sense. This warming is happening at 10-20 times faster than by natural processes in the past. There will not be enough generations between now and 2200, much less 2100, to select the necessary genes to survive in a +4C to +8C degree world. The only thing that will cause this selection is the required wealth it takes to build a dome, and thats not much genetic preparation at all (or solace to the poor folk of the world).

It was never in our nature to restrain our growth.

Yet current hunter-gatherers do it. Yet mankind did it for a hundred thousand years prior to totalitarian agriculture.

Right now the world is dying from the momentum of one bad idea from one general region from one general species, and you tell me that its not just human nature but nature itself? I don't buy it.