A Blueprint For Disaster In Any Society

To Dismiss The Current Extinction Wave On The Grounds That Extinctions Are Normal Events Is Like Ignoring A Genocidal Massacre On The Grounds That Every Human Is Bound To Die At Some Time Anyway.

Our Biggest Threat Is Not An Asteroid About To Crash Into Us, Something We Can Do Nothing About. Instead, All The Major Threats Facing Us Today Are Problems Entirely Of Our Own Making. And Since We Made The Problems, We Can Also Solve The Problems.

Federal Elections Happen Every Two Years In This Country. Presidential Elections Every Four Years. And Four Years Just Isn't Long Enough To Dismantle All The Environmental Laws We've Got In This Country.

Eurasia's Main Axis Is East/west, Whereas The Main Axis Of The Americas Is North/south. Eurasia's East/west Axis Meant That Species Domesticated In One Part Of Eurasia Could Easily Spread Thousands Of Miles At The Same Latitude, Encountering The Same Day-length And Climate To Which They Were Already Adapted.

Ahead Of Me Lies The Familiar Litany: Weakening Of The Heart, Hardening Of The Arteries, Increasing Brittleness Of Bones, Decreases In Kidney Filtration Rates, Lower Resistance Of The Immune System, And Loss Of Memory. The List Could Be Extended Almost Indefinitely. Evolution Seems Indeed To Have Arranged Things So That All Our Systems Deteriorate, And That We Invest In Repair Only As Much As We Are Worth.