Super-rich Hollywood directer Chuck Lorre fantasizes about how great life allegedly was before fossil fuels: ‘It was relatively stable. Peace on Earth, if you will’
'Then, with the advent of large-scale agriculture and the need for ever larger swathes of land to accommodate it, the tribal system collapsed and people began to live huddled together in towns, villages and cities. In short order, the priceless wisdom that taught us who we were and how we could live a happy life was forever lost to mankind'