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Lipton, Suzanne; van Huysen, Tiff; Naeem, Shahid
Sustainable Food Production, 11/2021Book Chapter
In chapter 1, we considered that development from an ecological perspective is a form of niche construction. Something members of almost every species do is modify their homes and habitats to better their lives. In the course of a few millennia, however, humans have vastly exceeded anything any other species has ever been able to do. So extensive is our niche construction that we have modified the entire planet to produce and sustain approximately 471 million tons of human mass: about 7.6 billion people. We noted, however, that while our biological success in terms of mass and numbers is indisputable,
