Jon Louis Mann wrote:
> 
> it can be said that the human race has been at war with the 
> environment since the agricultural revolution, 
>
I think it began much earlier, as soon as the hunter-gatherers
learned that they could mass-murder their predators, and raised
to the top of the food chain.

<off-topic>
In one of the Uplift books, the Galactics say that self-uplift
is impossible because as soon as a species gains enough
brainpower to become pre-sentient, it wages (and wins) a war
on the environment, effectively destroying the planet and
itself.
</off-topic>

Alberto Monteiro

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