@js290

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOCDYe39-QU

The Wizard & the Prophet
#CharlesCMann

#LongNowFoundation

Civilization..hangs on how we manage food, water, energy, & climate. 2..visions dominate..

Each..had an original creator: “prophet” William Vogt, author of "Road to Survival" & “wizard” Norman Borlaug, mastermind of..Green Revolution..prophet says..repent & cut back..everything; wizard says..clever..innovation can..find a way..

Examine both & a way to proceed emerges that combines caution w/invention.

@commandlinekid More up to date anthropology in the #Americas shows that the #NativePeoples there before the arrival of Europeans had made extensive changes to the natural state of the lands, including large scale planting of nut and fruit tree forests diversion of waterways, and monolithic earthworks some of which still exist today but many were destroyed by European descended farmers in America.

(bing some talks by #CharlesCMann or read his book "#1491")