Advances in agriculture and medicine have given us now an overpopulated planet with severely impoverished ecosystem services — and a profound moral dilemma: how can we continue to respond to the still-growing need to feed more mouths and to treat more illness in the coming decades, without continuing to imperil the opportunity for our descendants to enjoy long and healthy lives?
This is the subject of a short video by Lonnie Aarssen, published by Science Animated (Stonehouse, UK, https://sciani.com/).
Additional Information
- Aarssen L (2010) Darwinism and meaning. Biological Theory 5: 296 – 311. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1162/BIOT_a_00060.
- Aarssen L (2019) Dealing with the absurdity of human existence in the face of converging catastrophes. The Conversation, 1 May, 2019. https://theconversation.com/dealing-with-the-absurdity-of-human-existence-in-the-face-of-converging-catastrophes-110261.
- Aarssen L (2020) Meet Homo absurdus — the only creature that refuses to be what it is. Science Animated, 5 Feb 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=IY8T_WowpeA&t=0s.
- Aarssen L (2022, in press) What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland.
