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reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.

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There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.

Quelles que soient les modalités précises de mise en œuvre, il semble indispensable de restituer de l’espace à ces écosystèmes spontanés, avec une intervention humaine minimaliste, voire carrément absente. Le biologiste et naturaliste Edward O. Wilson a récemment calculé que la seule façon pour l’humanité de conjurer une crise d’extinction massive

infiniment plus grande que nécessaire. À la fin du XIXe siècle, le brillant biologiste Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), fervent défenseur de Darwin et grand-père d’Aldous Huxley, déclara même devant le Parlement britannique qu’il serait impossible à l’humanité d’épuiser les ressources des océans. Leur pouvoir de régénération était simplement trop puissan

The rising sun was now just peeking its head over the horizon. The desert in front of them came into focus like a developing photograph, and Rey Diaz could see that this place, once blasted by the fires of hell, was now covered in sparse undergrowth. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” Allen exclaimed. “What?” Rey Diaz whipped his head ar