Having read my last posted articles (the two Paul Kingsworth pieces), I was reminded that the position of the practioners of climate change denial are, given their intentional or unknowing ignoring of aspects of biogeophysical reality, Are trying their darndest to create what is actually a Deep Ecology dream world. And, a good book on that world, or one of the probable world lines in our future, is looking into the past.
Jarad Diamond's new tome, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Tom Ashbrook Interview is here . Have not read it yet, intend to. Could be a useful for those working the WCS side of the adaptation street.
Though in the interview above, Diamond does correctly point out how primitive war was endless and deadly, one should not blithly assume (and i am not saying Diamond does, I have yet to read the book), that a return to such simpler times now would not also be to a the society red tooth and claw. Just sayin...
Two other books one might want to reference:
Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , and Keeley's War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage .
A SAST take on the subject of Pinker's book, by Steven Pinker , and a longer lecture on it
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