>When the Europeans were exploring and colonising the Americas they did so with nothing but timber, leather, canvas, and a bit of steel. Now we spend a couple o

>When the Europeans were exploring and colonising the Americas they did so with nothing but timber, leather, canvas, and a bit of steel. Now we spend a couple of weekends a year in the bush, bringing a plethora of space-age technology just to try and survive: carbon fibre, nylon, and titanium gas cookers that boil water in 30 seconds. Well we use more technology today than we did before, big surprise. People didn't have sewage in the 1500s, and do now. Vasco da Gama didn't even bring oranges in his ships for a 2 year voyage, and yet today we stock tonnes of food on cruises. Etc x)