Evolution of Cultural Systems
With resource intensification through new tech, pop growth occurs, requiring more energy intake
- so for example, foraging (low dissipation of energy) is replaced by agricultural strategies (higher dissipation of energy) that capture more energy by utilizing slow, non, and renewables
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However, there is pop stress and pulsing due to limits of environmental resources
- so either pop decrease or resources increase (through more human labor and new tech)
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- leads to rise and fall of cultural societies