Why Did Human Development Proceed At Such

It Invites A Search For Ultimate Causes: Why Were Europeans, Rather Than Africans Or Native Americans, The Ones To End Up With Guns, The Nastiest Germs, And Steel?

Although Native Africans Domesticated Some Plants In The Sahel And In Ethiopia And In Tropical West Africa, They Acquired Valuable Domestic Animals Only Later, From The North.

The Past Was Still A Golden Age, Of Ignorance, While The Present Is An Iron Age Of Willful Bliss.

In Parts Of Montana, Salt Concentrations In Soil Water, Have Reached Those Double Those Of Seawater.

The Metaphor Is So Obvious. Easter Island Isolated In The Pacific Ocean — Once The Island Got Into Trouble, There Was No Way They Could Get Free. There Was No Other People From Whom They Could Get Help. In The Same Way That We On Planet Earth, If We Ruin Our Own [world], We Won't Be Able To Get Help.