Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)

The story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson. Humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted. Nobody plotted the Agricultural Revolution or sought human dependence on cereal cultivation. A series of trivial decisions aimed mostly at filling a

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Those first walls represented physical protection and security, key dynamics of the Subject Story. Physical walls were also mental walls: they were the first great act of separation, manifesting the idea that some should be in and others must be out. This was the moment humanity first separated from nature in order to subjugate it, as is implicit i

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As the American ecologist Aldo Leopold deftly put it, we need to transform the way we see ourselves, ‘from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it’.41 Thanks to forty years of Earth-system research, we have a rapidly improving scientific understanding of how the Holocene epoch – with its stable climate, ample fresh water,

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