Sentences with phrase «then human greed»
THen human greed and folly produced the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
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By plumbing the depths of human failings in a literal - minded fashion, one after the other (obsession, then greed, and finally guilt), Anderson ignores the possibility that genre is sharpest when wielded as metaphor for the same.
... and then quotes Jared Diamond, with a wonderful quote, I think [we humans] did go wrong, not «if» we went wrong, but we did go wrong, in our trajectory up the evolutionary «volcano» of life, and where we went wrong, I think, well, it was not our fault exactly, but the way we evolved, the DNA we carried, the way our brains grew and the way we are «wired» as beasts (animals)-- we often forget we are mere beasts, part of the animal kingdom here — the way we developed meant that our IQ and our visionary acumen and our creative skills led to our developing a seemingly — I say «seemingly» — unstoppable greed for more and more and more and more.