Brown Revolution?

I happened across this video lecture last night, and am glad I took the time to watch it. If you have an hour and are interested in the environment/climate change – and are ready for a new perspective on the whole thing – check this out. BN has been reading Collapse by Jared Diamond, about the rise and fall of civilizations through history with regard to environmental and social factors. He’s shared tidbits from it with me here and there, and it’s raised my awareness of problems such as deforestation, desertification and soil erosion. This video has a lot to say on that.

As a side note, it came to mind that a while ago there was this big shift in nutrition – it’s not fat that’s making us fat, it’s all the sugar. (The low-carb craze.) This is kind of that level of paradigm shift, except in environmental health, not individual human health…