** What are these?

** Thesis #1: Diversity is the primary good.

** Thesis #2: Evolution is the result of diversity.

** Thesis #3: Humans are products of evolution.

** Thesis #4: Human population is a function of food supply.

** Thesis #5: Humans are neither good nor evil.

** Thesis #6: Humans are still Pleistocene animals.

** Thesis #7: Humans are best adapted to band life.

** Thesis #8: Human societies are defined by their food.

** Thesis #9: Agriculture is difficult, dangerous and unhealthy.

*** Myth #1: Agriculture is the path of least resistance.

*** Myth #2: Agriculture creates a more stable and secure food supply.

*** Myth #3: Agriculture leads to greater health and nutrition.

*** Myth #4: Agriculture allows more leisure time and a generally higher quality of life.

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** Thesis #10: Emergent elites led the Agricultural Revolution.

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** Thesis #11: Hierarchy is an unnecessary evil.

** Thesis #12: Civilization must always grow.

** Thesis #13: Civilization always pursues complexity.

** Thesis #14: Complexity is subject to diminishing returns.

*** Agriculture and resource production.

*** Information processing.

*** Sociopolitical control and specialization.

*** Overall economic productivity

*** Technological innovation

** Thesis #15: We have passed the point of diminishing returns.

*** Agriculture and resource production.

*** Information processing.

*** Sociopolitical control and specialization.

*** Overall economic productivity.

*** Technological innovation.

** Thesis #16: Technology cannot stop collapse.

** Thesis #17: Environmental problems may lead to collapse.

*** The Holocene Extinction

*** Global Warming

*** Diamond’s Dozen

*** Erosion of soil.

*** Depletion of natural resources.

*** Pollution of freshwater.

*** Environmental pollution.

*** Overpopulation.

** Thesis #18: Peak Oil may lead to collapse.

** Thesis #19: Complexity ensures collapse.

** Thesis #20: Collapse is an economizing process.

** Thesis #21: Civilization makes us sick.

** Thesis #22: Civilization has no monopoly on medicine.

** Thesis #23: Civilization has no monopoly on knowledge.

** Thesis #24: Civilization has no monopoly on art.

** Thesis #25: Civilization reduces quality of life.

** Thesis #26: Collapse is inevitable.

** Thesis #27: Collapse increases quality of life.

** Thesis #28: Humanity will almost certainly survive.

** Thesis #29: It will be impossible to rebuild civilization.

** Thesis #30: The future will be what we make of it.

** Future of the Thirty