''The Future Eaters'' in a 1994 non-fiction book by Australian author

Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, Conservation biology, conservationist, Exploration, explorer, author, Science communication, science communicator, activist and p ...

. The book is an ecological history of

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entailing how humans consume the resources they need for their future, and looking at the journey of the

Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...

people from

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to the

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. Flannery's thesis has both been applauded and disagreed with.

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