The King's 28 Letters Have

The Past Was Still A Golden Age, Of Ignorance, While The Present Is An Iron Age Of Willful Bliss.

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.

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.

In Much Of The Rest Of The World, Rich People Live In Gated Communities And Drink Bottled Water. That's Increasingly The Case In Los Angeles Where I Come From. So That Wealthy People In Much Of The World Are Insulated From The Consequences Of Their Actions.

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.