Edson Sousa Jr Sousa Jr থেকে Weitchpec, CA 95546, USA থেকে Weitchpec, CA 95546, USA

This is based on the CBC Massey Lectures, broadcast in November 2004 as part of the Ideas series on CBC Radio. Could "progress" be humanity's biggest enemy? He poses the three questions of Gauguin; where do we come from, who are we, where are we going. To answer these for humanity, Ronald Wright discusses three civilizations - Easter Island, Maya, the old Middle East - and traces their rise and the likely reasons for their eventual failure. From that he traces our overall move to civilization. There is a lot of interesting information here about these civilizations and the history (such as we know/believe it) of humanity's journey to today's civilization. Will we collapse too? No answer to that one! Overall quite good, but I think the Massey Lectures audio format would be better than this printed version.