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We as humans have asked ourselves why we see things falling apart so quickly after we call a place home. How did Rome fall, why did Germany invade Poland, why do we continue to dump tons upon tons of waste into our food, water and homes, why do we continue to not respect each other as fellow human beings? We see things fall apart in all of our societies naturally: population growth leading to population growth, disease, war, waste, possessiveness and gluttony. If we can successfully trace the roots of the problems to their ends we would see that they all result from things apart of human nature. We have refused time and again to acknowledge that humans must take to survive and seldom reciprocate for the things we have upset. Human nature can be broken down into several reasons that lead to our destructive nature: our fear of change, fear of the unknown, our methods of sustaining our lives .
The fear of the unknown is something we have developed out of our evolutionary need to survive. If we do not question the things we do not understand or blindly trust what we are not familiar with, we would quickly be picked off of the food chain. Grouping the fear of the unknown with the search for knowledge reasonably correlates to each other. We are considered different from all other species because of this ability to find knowledge and use it to our advantage. Science, philosophy and linguistics are all things developed from the evolutionary purpose of survival and thriving. Through these things we can exploit our natural environment. We come to the invention of the Community of Truth, which tells us that if we obtain enough knowledge and understanding as a species then we can live perfectly. However, the community of truth is implies that we are members of a community, rather than what humans truly are: a leech on the neck of the earth. We have paved over the former communities that we seldom recognize anymore in order to grow bigger, take more and perpetuating the cycle.
We see progress as bigger buildings, more food in our stomachs, more money (an arbitrary invention we’ve made), more stuff, and more things, more of anything. What are we really satisfying after our need for nourishment? We use this knowledge as a justification for the furthering of our actions, of our continued taking. Instead of this knowledge being a vehicle for survival, we use it to climb the consumer society that we have developed over the last several hundred years.
Survival has become less about need and more about want, want being a luxury.
Certain cultures in human history have had impacts that are not absolutely destructive to their environment; our class has discussed the Native Americans in particular. But even Robin Wall Kimmerer implies that humans are creatures of taking by themselves.