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A Short History Of Progress by Ronald Wright (Paperback, 2006)

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Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. The twentieth-centurys runaway growth has placed a murderous burden on the planet.

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Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own success. The twentieth-centurys runaway growth has placed a murderous burden on the planet. A Short History of Progress argues that this modern predicament is as old as civilisation. Only by understanding the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated since the Stone Age can we recognise the inherent dangers, and, with luck, and wisdom, shape its outcome.

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PublisherCanongate Books LTD

ISBN-139781841958309

eBay Product ID (ePID)88930333

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Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameA Short History of Progress

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEngineering & Technology, Government, History

Publication Year2006

TypeTextbook

AuthorRonald Wright

FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm

Item Weight154 g

Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorRonald Wright

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by neildb1937a
13 Oct, 2023
Compelling essential reading for anyone worried about our future.
Fascinating history of the causes of declines of global civilisations. And we are next if we are not careful!
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by mariella9109
17 Oct, 2019
must read it!!
lovely concise history, really interesting
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