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[t]he Values To Which People Cling Most Stubbornly Under Inappropriate Conditions Are Those Values That Were Previously The Source Of Their Greatest Triumphs.

In Short, Europe’s Colonization Of Africa Had Nothing To Do With Differences Between European And African Peoples Themselves, As White Racists Assume. Rather, It Was Due To Accidents Of Geography And Biogeography—in Particular, To The Continents’ Different Areas, Axes, And Suites Of Wild Plant And Animal Species. That Is, The Different Historical Trajectories Of Africa And Europe Stem Ultimately From Differences In Real Estate.

But This Was The Only Way Of Life That Humans Knew For Their First 6m Years On The Planet. In Giving It Up Over The Past Few Thousand Years, We Have Lost Our Vulnerability To Disease And Cold And Wild Animals, But We Have Also Lost Good Ways To Bring Up Children, Look After Old People, Stave Off Diabetes And Heart Disease And Understand The Real Dangers Of Everyday Life.

Twenty Years Ago, You Might Have Been Pessimistic And Said There's No Hope. But These Days, Some Of Our Very Biggest Companies Are Acting Remarkably Cleanly. And In Some Cases, Although Not All Cases, The Ceos Are The Driving Forces Behind That.

It's Striking That Native Americans Evolved No Devastating Epidemic Diseases To Give To Europeans, In Return For The Many Devastating Epidemic Diseases That Indians Received From The Old World.