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This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction.
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England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.

Margaret Drabble

— A Natural Curiosity (New York: Viking, 1989) p. 308

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In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

herbert schiller

— Chapter One, Number One And the Political Economy Of Communication, p. 56

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This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction.


— Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001

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