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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 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.

Not Until The Beginning Of The 20th Century Did Europe's Urban Populations Finally Become Self-sustaining: Before Then, Constant Immigration Of Healthy Peasants From The Countryside Was Necessary To Make Up For The Constant Deaths Of City Dwellers From Crowd Diseases.

A Blueprint For Disaster In Any Society Is When The Elite Are Capable Of Insulating Themselves.

Eurasia's Main Axis Is East/west, Whereas The Main Axis Of The Americas Is North/south. Eurasia's East/west Axis Meant That Species Domesticated In One Part Of Eurasia Could Easily Spread Thousands Of Miles At The Same Latitude, Encountering The Same Day-length And Climate To Which They Were Already Adapted.