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Happy People

a Year in the Taiga
Jul 19, 2017MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A welcome antidote to all the Russophobia swirling in the media these days. It also made me realize that if as a species our DNA was articulated while living as hunters and gatherers (agriculture is considered to be roughly 10,000 years old), then we need a lot more space and solitude to be happy than is afforded in modern society. I remember reading a book by Carlo Cipolla, an economic historian, and he said that for the overwhelming majority of time that Homo sapiens have been on the planet their numbers did not exceed a total global population of 7 million. I was living in New York City at the time. Population approximately 7 million.