Tag: cacciatori-raccoglitori
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Ken Livingstone
Livingstone has consistently rejected being defined under any particular ideological current of socialism. Recognising this, in 2000, the former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock asserted that Livingstone could only be defined as a “Kennist”. Livingstone’s understanding of politics arises from his studies of animal behaviour and anthropology; rejecting the idea that the human species is…
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Fluttuazioni
We tend to think that the farther back we go in history, the dirtier and less hygienic people were, and so the higher the level of infectious disease. This is broadly true if we restrict ourselves to the last 1,000 years of Western civilization. However, if we consider the broader sweep of human history, the…
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Moralità
I said, “I can name for you something that is good, no matter what stories we tell ourselves.” “And it is…” I held up my glass. “Drinkable quantities of clean water.” “I don’t understand.” “Drinkable quantities of clean water are unqualifiedly a good thing, no matter the stories we tell ourselves.” She got it. She…
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Una catastrofe annuale artificiale
Agriculture is a recent human experiment. For most of human history, we lived by gathering or killing a broad variety of nature’s offerings. Why humans might have traded this approach for the complexities of agriculture is an interesting and long-debated question, especially because the skeletal evidence clearly indicates that early farmers were more poorly nourished,…
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Odio per l’orticoltura
Quando esponi nella principale mostra floreale del mondo, ci si attende che tu consideri il giardinaggio come uno dei più grandi piaceri della vita. I progettisti spendono anni a pianificare il loro giardino perfetto per il Chelsea Flower Show ed è tale la popolarità dell’evento che questo è uno dei rari anni in cui i…
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Nuovi indigeni
Permaculture uses the patterns that are common to traditional cultures for design principles and models. The diversity of design solutions, strategies, techniques and species are a toolkit towards new cultures of place. Wherever we live, we must become new indigenes. La permacultura usa gli schemi che sono comuni nelle culture tradizionali per trarne principi e…
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Il peggior sbaglio nella storia della razza umana
Anche se ormai risalente a più di vent’anni fa, l’articolo “The worst mistake in the history of the human race”, pubblicato nel maggio 1987 su Discover, rimane molto interessante, e col senno di poi propedeutico alle opere principali dell’autore Jared Diamond, ovvero “Armi, acciaio e malattie” e “Collasso”. Dato che in Rete, a quanto pare,…
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Il senso delle proporzioni
“Civilisation has emerged only recently – in the past six thousand or so years – and it may yet prove to be an unsuccessful experiment.” (Roy Rappaport, “Maladaptation in social systems”, 1977) “The citizens of modern complex societies usually do not realize that we are an anomaly of history. Throughout the several million years that…