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Livestock Adopted In Africa Were Eurasian Species That Came In From The North. Africa's Long Axis, Like That Of The Americas, Is North/south Rather Than East/west. Those Eurasian Domestic Mammals Spread Southward Very Slowly In Africa, Because They Had To Adapt To Different Climate Zones And Different Animal Diseases.

The Southward Advance Of Native African Farmers With Central African Crops Halted In Natal, Beyond Which Central African Crops Couldn't Grow - With Enormous Consequences For The Recent History Of South Africa.

All Of Our Current Environmental Problems Are Unanticipated Harmful Consequences Of Our Existing Technology. There Is No Basis For Believing That Technology Will Miraculously Stop Causing New And Unanticipated Problems While It Is Solving The Problems That It Previously Produced.

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.

I Decided That Now Is The Time To Start Doing The Things That Really Interest Me And I Find Important. It Was In The 10 Years Of The Macarthur Grant That I Began Working On My First Book... And I Began Putting More Work Into Environmental History.