As a species, human beings have been dazzlingly successful, but from this point on the secret to our survival may lie in being less successful.That’s the argument Charles C. Mann makes in the new issue of Adbusters, the lavishly grim bimonthly magazine from Vancouver. In an essay called “State of the Species,” Mann considers the judgment of the late microbiologist Lynn Margulis, who once told him, “The fate of every successful species is to wipe itself out.”Read full article >>