The Fourth Frontier chapter of The Hunters Gatherers Guide to the 21st Century repudiates the evolutionary narrative of the guide with prescriptions to manage what clearly can not be managed. Inditing economic growth like it does is like inditing the primal life force to eat, grow and reproduce. This chapter with its sloppy thinking and precepts repudiates what was written in previous chapters by denying economic growth as a force that pushes countries to value scarce resources and better stewardship of our environment. Japan, Switzerland and Scandinavia come to mind as good examples. On the other hand a satellite photo of the Hispanola island shows poor and politically dysfunctional Haiti as brown from every tree having been cut down in comparison to its verdant green politically functional neighbor Dominican Republic.
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