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* Electricity is a crux these days, as the Eastern Seaboard found out a few years ago. It is used in everything from communications and transport right on down to food preparation and recreation, and then one tree falls...

** That's the gist of the Road to Olduvai Gorge. Around 2012, there is predicted to be worldwide electrical grid failures, sending us back to the Dark Age, "and the stone age is just around the corner".

* As seen in [[Crippling Overspecialization]], many animal species are terminally dependent on a specific food or environment, such as giant pandas (bamboo) and polar bears (the vanishing sea ice).

* Easter Island. The palm forests were wiped out not by over-logging, but by introduced rats.

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