The Rate Of Human Invention Is Faster,

The Single Most Important Problem Is Our Misguided Focus On Identifying The Single Most Important Problem!

The United States Has Long Thought Of Itself As The Land Of Infinite Plenty, And Historically We Did Have Abundant Resources. But Now We Are Gradually Exhausting Our Fisheries, Our Topsoil, Our Water. On Top Of That, We're Coming To The End Of World Resources.

We Study The Injustices Of History For The Same Reason That We Study Genocide, And For The Same Reason That Psychologists Study The Minds Of Murderers And Rapists... To Understand How Those Evil Things Came About.

With The Rise Of Chiefdoms Around 7,500 Years Ago, People Had To Learn, For The First Time In History, How To Encounter Strangers Regularly Without Attempting To Kill Them.

Twelve Thousand Years Ago, Everybody On Earth Was A Hunter-gatherer; Now Almost All Of Us Are Farmers Or Else Are Fed By Farmers. The Spread Of Farming From Those Few Sites Of Origin Usually Did Not Occur As A Result Of The Hunter-gatherers' Elsewhere Adopting Farming; Hunter-gatherers Tend To Be Conservative.... Instead, Farming Spread Mainly Through Farmers' Outbreeding Hunters, Developing More Potent Technology, And Then Killing The Hunters Or Driving Them Off Of All Lands Suitable For Agriculture.