[My kind of book. Plus, it isn’t rocket science.]
The author introduces the book with a quote from an ancient text:
Long ago...
No one tore the ground with ploughshares
or parcelled out the land
or swept the sea with dipping oars -
the shore was the world’s end.
Clever human nature, victim of your inventions,
disastrously creative,
why cordon cities with towered walls?
Why arm for war?
Ovid, Amores, Book 3
The book isn’t about war: It highlights traps we set for ourselves that lead to troubles down the road.
e.g. if everyone lived high off the hog like many North Americans the Earth’s resources would be depleted by next Wednesday. Well, something like that.
Are we clever? Victims of our inventions?
Many are, undoubtedly.
Recommendations:
Buy the book rather than borrow. You may find yourself underlining numerous quotes and writing countless marginal notes.
Borrow The Little Green Handbook. It's closer to rocket science but still a valuable read.
1 comment:
Before Canada was called Canada, the native peoples followed a simple plan: take from the earth only what you need.
It worked for them.
But the rest of us got greedy.
Now the plan seems to be: take everything you can get before someone else does.
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