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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

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Kirkpatrick Sale
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 27
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