We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
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In modern times, Australia was the sole continent still inhabited only by hunter-gatherers... Native Australia had no farmers or herders, no writing, no metal tools, and no political organization beyond the level of the tribe or band.Jared Diamond
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
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Technology has to be invented or adopted.
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What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree The Easter Islanders didn't have anthropologists.
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Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity.
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Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
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