What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.