Short History Of Progress

Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one hadmade progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd overa cliff ... » 

Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one hadmade progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd overa cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts andjungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps the headstones ofcivilisations which fell victim to their own success. The twentiethcenturysrunaway growth has placed a murderous burden on the planet. A Short History ofProgress argues that this modern predicament is as old as civilisation. Onlyby understanding the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity hasrepeated since the Stone Age can we recognise the inherent dangers and withluck and wisdom shape its outcome. «