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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
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ISBN-13:
9780691175898
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.06.2017
Seiten:
369
Autor:
Ian Morris
Gewicht:
479 g
Format:
216x136x30 mm
Serie:
University Center for Human Values
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ian Morris is professor of classics and a fellow of the Stanford Archaeology Center at Stanford University.
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need - from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful any more