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Well, not exactly book-length, but: "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" (Jared Diamond) http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agricu
by asciilifeform 17y ago
Well, not exactly book-length, but:
"The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" (Jared Diamond)
http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/mistake_jared_diamond.pdf http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m...
The problem cannot be solved by returning to the past: going back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle would doom 95+% of everyone currently living to starvation. But before a problem can be solved, people have to admit that it exists.
- Alex3917 17y agoWhat I'm really interested is data on the specific elements of our lifestyles causing these problems.
- asciilifeform 17y agoStart by reading about the mental effects of sleep deprivation - a problem mostly unknown to pre-agricultural humans. This topic is a hotbed of research, yet the one cure which is certain to work - creating opportunities for people to live lives ungoverned by clocks if they so choose - is of course not on the table.