> For 299,000 of those years virtually all of us lived short lives marked overwhelmingly by drudgery and poverty. >That all began to change about 1800 when we

> For 299,000 of those years virtually all of us lived short lives marked overwhelmingly by drudgery and poverty. >That all began to change about 1800 when we began to exploit the world's vast stores of fossilised sunlight. citation needed