Has anyone here read Daniel Quinn's 'Ishmael'?

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Sustainability is the most important issue of our time.

Agree/Disagree?

Read both books.
Human's entitlement seemed to start up by the discovery of agriculture, which caused a population explosion, which needed more land for the food needed to support the increased population, hence forcibly moving onto neighbor's land, mostly by force or coercion. Nationalism and pride of being the stronger followed.
Very strong argument for this thesis.

that some people don't think that a functioning life sustaining ecosystem is a priority. :eyes:

And clearly, the way we're doing things nowadays, ain't sustainable.

For example, exponential population growth can *NEVER* be sustainable.

Tesha

Before I read Quinn's work I had spent about three years convinced that humanity was an irredeemably broken species, doomed to self-destruction by our evolved neuro-psychology. Quinn helped me understand the role that myths and cultural narratives play in the the formation and support of our world-view. He helped me see that we are not broken, but our stories are profoundly mistaken and dysfunctional. In addition, he pointed out that cultural narratives - our stories about who we are - can be changed, and that we can change our cultural attitudes by changing our stories.

Once I understood that, I began to look around and see with with fresh eyes all the people who are already telling those new stories. BQ (Before Quinn) I thought they were all just hopelessly deluded romantics. AQ I realized that they are the pathfinders, and vowed to become one of them.

Sustainability is inevitable, but it will require profound changes in human numbers and activity levels. Because of the social inertial of a global industrial civilization containing seven billion people, sustainability cannot be achieved immediately - and perhaps not even voluntarily. That means the damage we're doing to our planet will continue, probably for another 30 to 50 years, before things really change.

But change they will, and the more of us who start telling new stories about ourselves, our world, and the relationship between the two, the faster and easier that change will come.