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The Rate Of Human Invention Is Faster, And The Rate Of Cultural Loss Is Slower, In Areas Occupied By Many Competing Societies With Many Individuals And In Contact With Societies Elsewhere.

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.

Starbucks Goes To A Great Effort, And Pays Twice As Much For Its Coffee As Its Competitors Do, And Is Very Careful To Help Coffee Producers In Developing Countries Grow Coffee Without Pesticides And In Ways That Preserve Forest Structure.

Rhino-mounted Bantu Shock Troops Could Have Overthrown The Roman Empire. It Never Happened.

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.