Our global crisis has been a long time coming. Its roots lie not in the Industrial Revolution and the materialism of the European Enlightenment, or in the Agricultural Revolution, or even in the first use of tools. Certainly, each has played its part, but the root cause lies much further back in our evolution. When Homo sapiens first emerged, with its large brain, able to think, reason and process speech, and agile hands with which to mould the world to meet its needs, life on Earth embarked upon a most creative, yet most dangerous venture.
We sought to improve our quality of life, to ...
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