612
But while such egalitarian evolutionary views may be liberating, in breaking
down absolute barriers between wild and domestic traits (an argument we have been
calling attention to throughout this work, and given that such traits can exist in all
species), the perspective tends to ignore the breeding and inbreeding backlash
unleashed by humans. Grouw recognizes it when she acknowledges how the buildup of muscles through breeding has certainly been a boon to the meat industry.
5
But it is this profiteering within the breeding milieu that sounds the alarm bell,
and presages of slavery, and all forms of human-dominated exploitation and slaughter of the natural (and unnatural) worlds, as the case may be. One of the most graphic
depictions of this human proclivity to exploit life is to be found in the Russian
writer, Vasily Grossman’s epic novel of World War II, and the horrors of Hitler and
Stalin, Life and Fate.
6
Twenty-five years ago we were emphatic that all economic progress must end.
7
Most recently, interdisciplinary energy experts, like Vacliv Smil, have echoed our
5 ibid., Katrina Van Grouw, p. 173.
6 Vasily Grossman, Life And Fate, A Novel, Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler,
Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1985. In addition, the Shoa Foundation in Los Angeles at
USC, https://sfi.usc.edu/, has accomplished a critical pillar of human understanding, empathy and
memory, mostly of Holocaust survivors.
7 Introductory chapter, World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium,
by M.C. Tobias, ed., by J. G. Morrison, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, 1994.
Fig. 65.2 Over Los Angeles, California. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
65 The Great Divergence
But while such egalitarian evolutionary views may be liberating, in breaking
down absolute barriers between wild and domestic traits (an argument we have been
calling attention to throughout this work, and given that such traits can exist in all
species), the perspective tends to ignore the breeding and inbreeding backlash
unleashed by humans. Grouw recognizes it when she acknowledges how the buildup of muscles through breeding has certainly been a boon to the meat industry.
5
But it is this profiteering within the breeding milieu that sounds the alarm bell,
and presages of slavery, and all forms of human-dominated exploitation and slaughter of the natural (and unnatural) worlds, as the case may be. One of the most graphic
depictions of this human proclivity to exploit life is to be found in the Russian
writer, Vasily Grossman’s epic novel of World War II, and the horrors of Hitler and
Stalin, Life and Fate.
6
Twenty-five years ago we were emphatic that all economic progress must end.
7
Most recently, interdisciplinary energy experts, like Vacliv Smil, have echoed our
5 ibid., Katrina Van Grouw, p. 173.
6 Vasily Grossman, Life And Fate, A Novel, Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler,
Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1985. In addition, the Shoa Foundation in Los Angeles at
USC, https://sfi.usc.edu/, has accomplished a critical pillar of human understanding, empathy and
memory, mostly of Holocaust survivors.
7 Introductory chapter, World War III: Population and the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium,
by M.C. Tobias, ed., by J. G. Morrison, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, 1994.
Fig. 65.2 Over Los Angeles, California. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
65 The Great Divergence