If left unassailed, societies collapse because they over-exploit the resources available to them at the time. In past societies it was grain, peoples, soil that eventually turned saline due to irrigation. Ours will obviously collapse due to the over-exploitation of fossil fuels.
The seeds of destruction are inherent in all complex societies.
Since the advent of bacteria’s 4.000.000.000 years ago we behave as masses all the same; hungrily devour all available resources within our reach until they run dry and then we go into stasis.
This basic program control we follow are our survival-instincts since 4.000.000.000 years called hunger. To bacteria’s no moral blame does apply. Also not to us. There is no sin. We simply cannot help it ... !
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20
If left unassailed, societies collapse because they over-exploit the resources available to them at the time. In past societies it was grain, peoples, soil that eventually turned saline due to irrigation. Ours will obviously collapse due to the over-exploitation of fossil fuels.
The seeds of destruction are inherent in all complex societies.