Habitats come and go.
Environments change and species adapts. Humans have learned not only to adapt
to their surroundings, but also to exploit it to their own benefit and even to
change it, setting it to their hand. It is in these makeable scapes that human
societies developed. Always learning to make the most profitable situations out
of the giving circumstances, was it food, money or housing. Improving the
living quality for, in the beginning, the largest number of people and, later,
just for the individual, has always been a key driving force for generations in
the past and in the future.
This need for more has
great powers. It can generate great innovations and prosperity, but will
eventually not satisfy itself and therefore yields its own collapse.
This cycle of temporary
satisfactions and longer lasting collapse and regenerations can be observed in
civilizations in the past, but it is also applicable to the current situation
and perspectives in the future.
View Original