Let's see if we can predict and correct for the overshoot.
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Overshoot
//ˈəʊ.və.ʃuːt//
Synonyms for "overshoot" (42 found)
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7 translations across 2 languages.
Hungarian
4 entries- túlfogyasztás noun (when the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity)
- ellő fölötte verb (to shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something)
- túlfut verb (to go past something; to go too far)
- túllő verb (to shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something)
Spanish
2 entries- sobrecarga noun (when the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity)
- pasársele la mano verb (to shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something)
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With appropriate choice and action such uncontrolled decline could be avoided; overshoot could instead be resolved by a conscious effort to reduce humanity's demand on the planet.
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Population overshoot is therefore unlikely to yield to management. Rather, the usual suspects will enter the scene and do their thing: starvation, disease, […] violence […] [and] death […].
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Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom.
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