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With The Rise Of Chiefdoms Around 7,500 Years Ago, People Had To Learn, For The First Time In History, How To Encounter Strangers Regularly Without Attempting To Kill Them.

Technology Causes Problems As Well As Solves Problems. Nobody Has Figured Out A Way To Ensure That, As Of Tomorrow, Technology Won't Create Problems. Technology Simply Means Increased Power, Which Is Why We Have The Global Problems We Face Today.

Put Another Way, The Chimpanzees' Closest Relative Is Not The Gorilla But Humans.

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.

The History Of Interactions Among Disparate Peoples Is What Shaped The Modern World Through Conquest, Epidemics And Genocide. Those Collisions Created Reverberations That Have Still Not Died Down After Many Centuries, And That Are Actively Continuing In Some Of The World's Most Troubled Areas.