energy is the bottom line…

Book review:

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels:

How Human Values Evolve

by Ian Morris

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015

Contributors:

Richard Seaford

Jonathan D. Spence

Christine M. Korsgaard

Margaret Atwood

369 pages

Ian Morris says right up front that not everyone thinks he’s got it exactly right, but his story is an eye opener: how are human values and moral norms related to how human beings use energy?

Human beings need energy to survive, and obviously we need sources of energy.

The first human-like hunter-gatherers used energy that they could kill or pick up, and the first farmers planted their energy sources and domesticated a few animals, and now we depend (fatally?) on fossil fuel energy to live our lives.

Morris explains (attributes causes for) the different ways of “capturing” energy that are connected to how we feel about ourselves and how we deal with others.

If you’re satisfied with what you know about your code of values and the “do unto others…” stuff, then read Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels and learn some new stuff.

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