“That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that humans devised for some 2 million years were fire and the hand ax. That's all. Eden didn't need anything more” NeedsYearsHumansHandsBornMillionsTechnologyFireCallingHarmonySpeciesEdenHuman SpeciesSavanna Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.” IfsWorldTwoNextTechnologyConvincedDecadesCirclesCatastropheFull CircleSavanna Author:Kirkpatrick Sale