Sapiens and Collapse
In his 2014 book, Sapiens, Yuval Harari offers a meta-history of humankind that traces the evolution of "religion" from animism, polytheism, and monotheism (such as Islam and Christianity), or natural-law beliefs (such as Buddhism), to current consumer capitalism, science, and technology. Rachel Nuwer's recently posted, bbc.com article, "How Western Civilisation Could Collapse," summarizes various predictions about the impending end of global capitalism--if it continues to be unsustainable, ecologically and economically. Is our species doomed or can wisdom from traditional religions save us?
The podcast Conversations about Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed is embedded on this page from an open RSS feed. All files, descriptions, artwork and other metadata from the RSS-feed is the property of the podcast owner and not affiliated with or validated by Podplay.