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I can't understand this perspective at all, but it seems to have been a key philosophy guiding human development for a very long time. Was it just a belief base
by standardUser 5y ago
I can't understand this perspective at all, but it seems to have been a key philosophy guiding human development for a very long time. Was it just a belief based on convenience?
- _qwfv 5y agoIt's a story as old as humanity. There's many examples of humans exhausting their nearby resources because they thought they were effectively infinite. Whether that's a forest, a food stock, a water source, or something else.
- notriddle 5y agoAnd every time it's happened in the past, the solution has been to leave. There's always been somewhere else to go.
- _qwfv 5y agoNot every time, or at least the solution doesn't always result in everyone surviving. The Mayan civilization, for instance, is thought to have exhausted their local resources and fallen apart as a result.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoEaster Island is another example.
- rolleiflex 5y agoUp until the time industrial revolution really started to get going, it was true. If you look at the literature, poetry or philosophy of most any culture before 1880s it’s easy to see an unwavering belief of the invincibility of Nature against mankind. Humans have always been able to alter nature, but their ability to alter Nature with the capital N is a very new thing on a geological time scale.
- grecy 5y agoRead the book "The Golden Spruce" to get a really good understanding of how quickly we decimated the trees in the West. The rate of forest destruction accelerated so quickly with machinery I don't think it's possible to grasp.
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