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Cultural evolution, has been progressing rapidly, and has brought man to many major turning points in civilization, such as “the adoption of upright posture, early man’s first use of tools, the development of language, culture as an adaptive strategy, food sharing, food production, social stratification, urbanization, state organization, and now industrialization. All of these changes have been decisive ones – crucial developments with critical implications for the future. However, industrialization is a crisis in the true medical sense. If for a moment we consider civilization a disease, then at this point the patient will either recover or die – as a species and as a cultural type.” (Bodley p. 2) Bodley writes that man has culturally evolved in a wide variety of ways, however that evolution is a dangerous one. Bodley writes that the world is in danger right now, due to our civilization, and that we are facing a point and time where we are on the brink of world destruction. “Many of the most significant technological innovations, including antibiotics, TV, computers, nuclear energy, mass produced organic compounds, and jet propulsion have arrived within the past 25 years.” (Bodley p. 3) Bodley writes that