The best natural resource advantage that the erasions had was they got lucky with animals, and everyone else got unlucky with animals. The thing i guess i hadn't thought about quite so much was how loaded dice were when it comes to animals. As someone who lives in england and sees all these rolling green hills 24 days, 365 days a year, whatever,. And then when i'm in australia, i see barren desert, ght. I look at i car, well, you've got a head start here. That's what the book's trying to say.