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# Within Our Planetary Means
- URL: https://www.saraburke.net/within-our-planetary-means/
- Published: 2020-08-16T15:49:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-29T06:44:51.000Z
- Author: Sara Burke

There’s a bit in Phil Christman’s [latest newsletter](https://tinyletter.com/philipchristman/letters/the-tourist-volume-113?ref=saraburke.net) where he talks about how rising global temperatures mean we will have to in some way come to terms with the fact that in order to live as a species, we will have to live “within our planetary means.”

Perhaps the next bit of human history—who knows how long, a hundred years, a thousand years, many thousands—will be figuring out how to live under those constraints. We spent the last few thousand figuring out how to live without constraint, and we overdid it.