Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 2

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

To the extent that we are today eroding the carrying capacity on which future generations would otherwise depend, our way of life could be characterized as intergenerational “predation”; to put it crudely, the old are “eating” the young.

Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 1

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

Could we use predator-prey relationships among widely divergent species in nature as a metaphor to help in understanding the behavior of people in complex human societies, in which some people gain at the expense of others?