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A small village on good land beside a river is a good idea; but when the village grows into a city and paves over good land, it becomes a bad idea. While prevention might have been easy, a cure may be impossible: a city isn’t easily moved. The human inability to foresee – or to watch out for – long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer.” (p.108) Here are a few draft questions for you to consider while reading this book What is meant by the term ‘progress’? How useful is the social pyramid analogy in describing the growth and demise of civilisations? Can this social pyramid analogy be usefully compared to ecological pyramids such as Elton’s pyramid of numbers that describes the pattern of large populations of small sized organisms at the base of food chains (e.g. phytoplankton), and progressively smaller populations of relatively large organisms toward the top of the food chain (e.g. predatory fish). As a biologist, would you agree with Wright’s overall conclusion from his archaeological studies of previous civilisations: “that the health of land and water – and of woods, which are the keepers of water – can be the only lasting basis for any civilisation’s survival and success”? (p.105) How would you counter the argument that we “as a species are doomed by hope”? (p.123) Do you accept Wright’s description of Homo sapiens as “an Ice Age hunter only half-evolved towards intelligence; clever but seldom wise”? (p.132) Are we really bound by a human predisposition toward short-term thinking (democratic election frequency ~5 yrs; regeneration time ~25 yrs; lifespan ~80 yrs) that constrains our capacity to take longer term views? Is the history of past civilisations a reasonable starting point with which to assess the future of our own? If global average life expectancy has almost doubled since ~1900 (Lomborg), does that not mean that quality of life has also improved for most of humanity? Other useful resources: Lomborg, B. 2001. The Skeptical Environmentalist - Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Hardin, G. 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162: 1243-1248.  ADDIN EN.REFLIST Dietz, T., E. Ostrom, and P. C. Stern. 2003. The struggle to govern the commons. 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