HELL BENT (with dramatic illustrations)

Hell Bent (with dramatic illustrations) reveals how the very biology that led to our common ancestor descending from the trees to the top of the food chain is the same biology that will send our civilisation spiralling toward extinction within the next century or two.

The civilisation we know today is the direct descendant of chimps who were male-dominated and used aggression as their default method of control. Their basic instincts centred on self, family, and tribe preservation. Later, biological structures that emphasised our emotional and reasoning capacities were enslaved by our primitive, hunter/gatherer instincts.

What put those humans at the top of the food chain then became extremely destructive to those living in what we would deem "civilisation". "It became necessary to destroy the village to save it" is an iconic statement of our 20th/21st-century predicament. Hell Bent (with dramatic illustrations) explores this dilemma and the resulting dire predictions, offering solutions and supporting its arguments with dramatic illustrations.