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Ishmael Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for Ishmael is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In the novel, Ishmael suggests that philanthropy is part of the reason that population is expanding beyond earth’s capacity to hold it. Instead of moving food to feed starving populations, those populations should be moved to where the food is....
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The human relationship to food is central to Ishmael's lesson. Quinn draws a contrast between the way food is handled and distributed in civilization, and how it is done in the wild. In the wild, food is plentiful and free for the taking, even...
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Ishmael believed that man's control of the food supply ended evolution, as there is no reason for humanity (in the future) to change or adapt.
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