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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up / Tom Phillips. 3.75 stars
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This sounds like a wonderful, humorous book. I have said so many times that humans do not seem to learn from their mistakes.:)
Rachel wrote: "This sounds like a wonderful, humorous book. I have said so many times that humans do not seem to learn from their mistakes.:)"It's true! We don't learn! It's maybe not as funny as I've made it out to be. There are funny parts (and sarcastic/funny parts), and that one photo at the end really got me going, but it's not 100% funny, either. He does choose some silly mistakes, though (as well as some really bad mistakes) to highlight.
LibraryCin wrote: "Rachel wrote: "This sounds like a wonderful, humorous book. I have said so many times that humans do not seem to learn from their mistakes.:)"
It's true! We don't learn! It's maybe not as funny as..."
I read stuff all the time and roll my eyes. We make decisions, not fully researching the consequences, and then several years later, suffer the consequences because it wasn't thought out!! I see in in science, in history!! Humans drive me crazy!!
It's true! We don't learn! It's maybe not as funny as..."
I read stuff all the time and roll my eyes. We make decisions, not fully researching the consequences, and then several years later, suffer the consequences because it wasn't thought out!! I see in in science, in history!! Humans drive me crazy!!
3.75 stars
This is a (somewhat) humourous look at history and errors that humans have made in the realms of agriculture, science, war, international relations, etc.
I quite enjoyed this. I originally expected there to be a lot of environmental stuff, and there was some, but there was much more. Some of the humour is sarcastic, but that’s ok. The funniest was the photo at the very end, after a paragraph of doom, then a paragraph of positive, then a photo (not going to say what it’s of – I don’t want to spoil it!). That photo really made me laugh after the positive words in the previous paragraph!
Some of the anecdotes were short and some were longer and went into more detail. I did lose a bit of interest in a couple of the longer ones, but mostly it was interesting. Some of it was history I (broadly) knew about and some of it was stuff I either didn’t know about, or just didn’t know much about (i.e. Ghengis Khan – no, he wasn’t he one who make the stupid mistake…). Overall, though, quite enjoyable!