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Attack on nature

The idea of subjugating and manipulating nature as the first farmers did, still drives human endeavor.

 

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  • Catholic Church
  • Danny Miller
  • degradation
  • development
  • domination
  • overexploitation
  • Philip B. Meggs
  • psychiatrist
  • self defense
  • Sigmund Freud
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Mayans

History abounds with examples of communities that were sufficiently intelligent to avoid disaster, yet failed to do so.

 

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  • Americas
  • Clive Ponting
  • deforestation
  • Disease
  • forest gardening
  • Human Interest
  • overexploitation
  • Pre-columban
  • Rigoberta Menchú Tum
  • soil exhaustion
  • writing
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traps

Attack on nature
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solutions

Sustainable development
Friar Roger Bacon
Darwin and poetry
Venice (beginnings)
Creativity
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insight

Damasio's decision
Progress or Paradigm?
Division of mental labour
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