Technology Causes Problems As Well As Solves

In Fact, Everywhere In The World There Has Been A Flux Between Big And Small Societies. Big Political Units Are Constantly Being Formed, Later To Fragment. The Individual Pieces Try To Pull Apart, And Then They Join Together Again. One Sees That In Europe: There Have Been Unifications And Then Dissolutions And Reunifications. So In The Long Run, It's 10,000 Steps Toward Amalgamation Offsetting 9,999 Steps Toward Falling Apart Again. In Businesses And Industries, I Would Guess That's Also True.

People Often Ask, "what Is The Single Most Important Environmental Population Problem Facing The World Today?" A Flip Answer Would Be, "the Single Most Important Problem Is Our Misguided Focus On Identifying The Single Most Important Problem!

Human Societies Vary In Lots Of Independent Factors Affecting Their Openness To Innovation.

Even To This Day, No Native Australian Animal Species And Only One Plant Species-the Macadamia Nut-have Proved Suitable For Domestication. There Still Are No Domestic Kangaroos.

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.