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However, the word ecophagy has now been adopted by others concerned about less specific threats to the biosphere. There are other forms of planetary ecocide, and even intentional ecophagy — for instance, there was a long-standing USENET group called "alt.pave-the-earth" devoted to paving the entire Earth, including the oceans, with asphalt or concrete. More seriously, those with concerns about global economic monoculture as a threat to biosafety and biosecurity have used the term to refer to the potential for total loss of natural capital to economic processes, involving robots or just very stupid humans and institutions. The more common term for this is Easter IslandEaster Island ( Polynesian: Rapa Nui ("Great Rapa"), Spanish: Isla de Pascua is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. Administratively it is a province of the Chilean region of Valparaiso, although it is located 3,515 km (2,185 miles) w Syndrome, which refers to the deforestation of that island by its own inhabitants in the 1500sCenturies: 15th century 16th century 17th century Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s Years: 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 Events and Trends Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa External li, before any contact with EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Seans.

The paper Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations was published in AprilApril is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 30 days. Derived from the Latin aprilis either from the Latin word aperire which means "to open", probably referring to growing plants in spring, or from the Etruscan name Apru for Aphr 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri by Freitas, where he wrote:

Perhaps the earliest-recognized and best-known danger of molecular nanotechnology is the risk that self-replicating nanorobots capable of functioning autonomously in the natural environment could quickly convert that natural environment (e.g., "biomass") into replicas of themselves (e.g., "nanomass") on a global basis, a scenario usually referred to as the " grey gooGrey goo refers, usually in a science fictional context, to a hypothetical human extinction event involving nanotechnology, in which out-of-control virus-like self-replicating robots consume all life on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario problem" but perhaps more properly termed "global ecophagy".