Cultural Evolution: Caught in the Devil's Bargain - Volume I, Human Nature - Culture and Biology, #1

Until we start to think of culture and cultures more as relations between individuals and groups and less as objects, we will have little chance of realizing the greater peace, flourishing, and ecological stewardship we are capable of and must achieve to avoid becoming abjectly inhumane or extinct. What I am suggesting is a moral approach to the study of culture and culture change. I am asking that cultural anthropology extend its scope to once again include the cultural evolution of humankind as a whole.
And in doing so focus on patterns of human relations in a way that throws light on the caring, social bonding aspects of our nature. Based on those findings I dare to prescribe a belief and moral system that can help avert the eventual, inevitable collapse of industrial consumer capitalism and its attendant ecological degradation. Cultural Evolution: Caught in the Devil's Bargain redefines culture and reveals elements in its specific and general evolution, from the dawn of humanity to the present, that illuminate how we have now arrived at the brink of civilizational collapse.
Based on this framework of thinking and evidence from the past, the book offers a better way of relating to each other as persons. This approach has the power to inform and persuade humankind to find better ways to live within and between our groups and serve as successful stewards of Earth. Volume II, Influencing Sociocultural Evolution contains Chapters 13-17.