Saturday, February 28, 2004

Fernandez-Ernesto's Civilizations Posted here Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 10:26:56 AM     There is an interesting book, Civilizations, by Fernandez-Ernesto, in which he argues that the civilizational impulse is very strong in humans, and successful empires of necessity exploit their own and surrounding people (energy and food considerations, as wll as labor to build). If this is true, how close to nature can we be and still have civilization?  I look at the salmon situation and despair of the complexity of this "simple" adaptation? ********