Livestock Adopted In Africa Were Eurasian Species

Starbucks Goes To A Great Effort, And Pays Twice As Much For Its Coffee As Its Competitors Do, And Is Very Careful To Help Coffee Producers In Developing Countries Grow Coffee Without Pesticides And In Ways That Preserve Forest Structure.

Why Were There Far More Species Of Domesticated Animals In Eurasia Than In The Americas? The Americas Harbor Over A Thousand Native Wild Mammal Species, So You Might Initially Suppose That The Americas Offered Plenty Of Starting Material For Domestication.

We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

Our Biggest Threat Is Not An Asteroid About To Crash Into Us, Something We Can Do Nothing About. Instead, All The Major Threats Facing Us Today Are Problems Entirely Of Our Own Making. And Since We Made The Problems, We Can Also Solve The Problems.

Not Until The Beginning Of The 20th Century Did Europe's Urban Populations Finally Become Self-sustaining: Before Then, Constant Immigration Of Healthy Peasants From The Countryside Was Necessary To Make Up For The Constant Deaths Of City Dwellers From Crowd Diseases.