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The Power Podcast: Episode 3 Fire, Tools, and Language

May 12, 2025October 5, 2022 by Richard Heinberg

As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment, Society, Society featured, The Power Podcast Tags fire, human evolution, language, Power, tools Leave a comment

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