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The Human Behavioural Crisis

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Foundational papers

• World Scientists' Warning: The Behavioural Crisis Driving Ecological Overshoot
• Mind the Gap: A Deeper Look at the Behavioural Crisis Driving Ecological Overshoot (in review)

Core mechanism

• Human Behavioural Crisis
• Neurobiological/Fitness Gap
• Consequences
• Selection by Consequences
• Exosomatic Energy
• Discounting
• Information Environment
• Contextualisation
• Niche Construction Theory

Evolved impulses and norms

• Evolved Impulses
• Social Norms

Three Drivers of the HBC

• Economic Growth
• Marketing
• Pronatalism

Levers and limits

• Ecological Overshoot
• Levers of Overshoot
• Planetary Boundaries
• MTI Society
• Maximum Power Principle