Around one million years ago, the man took form. Stepped on the grasses of the Saharan Greenlands and there, the first step towards greatness came through.
As humans, we very infrequently think about the life that surrounds us. Or maybe we do and just don't like to sound weird. As the most intelligent species on this planet, we, quite literally, have taken upon the realms of change. Whether it be the first fire, or the first stone tool, the first harvest, you get what I mean. We have constantly changed.
But over this constant change, until probably a few millenniums ago, we didn't understand the concept of time. We changed, and the time changed with us. Now, in the 21st century, we strive to understand the depths of time itself. A concept still relatively vague in comparison, yet so ornate and engaging. Our perception of time comes from our current understanding. We can't really speak about generations before us as they had circumstances and for them, most likely time was a dream, a pin in a haystack. They probably also didn't care about the whole science behind time.
Today, we are in the process of being the most advanced civilization from our history as we know. Probably the most sophisticated as well. And yet things such as the pyramids and the plumbing of the Indus Valley, or the fall of Pompei or the reality behind the religions of the world still make us think acutely. It goes to say that our age is built on the sheer fear of the extinction of our species.
Think about it, every world war, the primary nemesis was fear. Whether that be the fear of being taken over by another country or the fear of a nuclear attack. Truth is, we never got out of that mentality. We still are creating things that could very well eliminate humans, with the fear of using them to help save us.
Time and time again, we have seen the past speak the truth. Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, these were civilizations that had no regard for time. They lived in the present day. They made their moves not for future generations, but for themselves. We, as a race, are trying to make the world a better place for our future generations. I mean, C'MON! We don't know if the future generations will really even care! We just speculate a disaster and are prepping for it, knowing its nowhere near our time. Global warming, non-renewable resources, treaties, pacts. We do these things to help the future. But there is no future when we can't support ourselves.
My article might come as a surprise to a few. Maybe you won't even agree to a single word I say. But let's face the facts here:
8 billion people ~ 2035-2050, we still can't feed 2 billion today. Let 2100 hit, 11 billion to 13 billion, we are already on a carrying capacity and we will run out of room to feed the people.
Point is, we can't feed our people now, we can't solve our problems now, we can't fix our world now, how in anyone's right mind will we be able to do it in 40 years?!
Most of you will say, "Technological advances will allow us to feed th-"
NONSENSE.
We, need to start thinking about our present. We can't live on the edge of time. We don't hold the power to tell what's coming. All we can do is see if anything like this has happened in the past and learn from it. We are more worried about god damn aminals than the 1.1 billion starving people. Remember, animals were here before us, they will be here after us. There is no us, the world will still run. We need to make the most of our resources to help our people today. We cannot dwell into the future hoping someone will fix all of this. We obviously have the power to do it today, we have done it before, less than 200 years ago, and we can do it again.
It just takes will.
Where there is will, there is a way.
