Ocupation: Author
Life: b. October 7, 1948
Birthday: October 7
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
source: Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: War, Ice, Age, Ice Age, Bottlenecks