What Did The Last Easter Islander Say

Ahead Of Me Lies The Familiar Litany: Weakening Of The Heart, Hardening Of The Arteries, Increasing Brittleness Of Bones, Decreases In Kidney Filtration Rates, Lower Resistance Of The Immune System, And Loss Of Memory. The List Could Be Extended Almost Indefinitely. Evolution Seems Indeed To Have Arranged Things So That All Our Systems Deteriorate, And That We Invest In Repair Only As Much As We Are Worth.

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.

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

No Government Is Here Forever. And There Are Other Forces - The Most Potent Force In Our Society, In Fact, Big Business - Doing Good For The Environment.

We Can't Manipulate Some Stars While Maintaining Other Stars As Controls; We Can't Start And Stop Ice Ages, And We Can't Experiment With Designing And Evolving Dinosaurs.