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S1 E6: Why Do We Destroy Nature? / Tackling InequalityJared Diamond explores how mass extinctions of the past and the collapse of ...Jared Diamond explores how mass extinctions of the past and the collapse of civilizations foreshadowed our role in climate change and mismanagement of natural resources. Examining the dangers of the ...
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S1 E5: Will We Be Visited By Aliens? / Can We Eradicate Genocide?This time he discusses space exploration and the discovery of habitable ...This time he discusses space exploration and the discovery of habitable extrasolar planets, which hold the possibility of life. If aliens visited, would they come with friendly intentions? Then he ...
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S1 E4: Agriculture's Mixed Blessings/How Agriculture DifferentiatedNothing changed human history more than the birth of agriculture, giving us ...Nothing changed human history more than the birth of agriculture, giving us culture and civilization. But this unique feature of our species, absent in our nearest animal relatives, also brought ...