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Originally Posted by babydriver

Not to complain too much about a very thought provoking essay, but it should be pointed out that horses were not used by any Neolithic cultures at all. They were domesticated during the early Bronze Age, around 3500 BCE and probably with that occurring in the central Asian steppes north of the Caucasus mountains, especially within the Botai culture. In fact, horses were not used for plowing, etc., until the invention of the horse collar (5th c. CE). Also, and to me this is an important distinction, horses were domesticated by humans and not the other way around. These and more recent industrial inventions have been made by humans to benefit humans.

In a sense, your argument could be viewed as a repetition of the Luddite fear of the industrial revolution, with robots substituting for steam engines. To me, a much bigger and more real concern is whether or not humanity has the collective will and wisdom to correct man-made climate change before it gets completely out of control. That is what keeps me up at night...

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