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DESCRIPTION:\nThe Vicious Circle Principle\nConversation Facilitated by Ken Peterson\n 
 \nJoin us for a scintillating conversation about a book that explains with 
 courageous truth how our species developed in relationship to the 
 environment from rock-carving hunter-gatherers to rocket-launching denizens 
 of the industrial world.  And learn what homo sapiens have in common, from 
 their earliest beginnings to the present, in being locked into a cycle of 
 surplus development, overpopulation, technology development, environmental 
 degradation, resource depletion, scarcity, and therefore pressure to 
 develop new technology, which invariably leads to more surplus, 
 overpopulation, and so on, a cycle that the author of this book calls 
 “the vicious circle,” and his theory “the vicious circle 
 principle.”  The book is Too Smart for Our Own Good, The Ecological 
 Predicament of Humankind, by Craig Dilworth.  If you haven’t read it yet 
 but are interested in the origins and fate of our species at the end of the 
 fossil fuel age, then this is an opportunity for you to be introduced to 
 this paradigm-shattering book that explores the human patterns that have 
 caused desecration of the environment from the extinction of large mammals 
 by hunter-gatherers to today’s global warming.  Ken Peterson will be our 
 guide through the mind-bending ideas Craig Dilworth has proposed in his 
 ground-breaking book.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  
 28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are expected\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/29/18724733.php
SUMMARY:The Vicious Circle Principle
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/29/18724733.php
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