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It'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
by _qwfv 5y ago
It'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.