Thread: Ivory

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

Problem is the human population is outgrowing its home (earth) and eventually to survive it will require every resource this planet has just for it to survive till it starves because it hast exhausted the resources. Unless a natural disaster or war culls the herd, spanish influenza, the plague, etc all happened when population was smaller, imagine its means of travel with more people living in such close proximity to one another.

Yes, nature has a way of correcting things

Europe was an over-crowded, corrupt, crime ridden toilet in the 13th and 14th centuries, where there wasn't enough resources for anyone to live, let alone prosper.

Then along came a thing called, The Black Death, the Bubonic plague, which threw a party and, "all in all, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century. The aftermath of the plague created a series of religious, social, and economic upheavals, which had profound effects on the course of European history."

Those upheavals, and the result of the mass dying, and hence, freeing of land and resources, are commonly referred to as, "The Renaissance", which led to some of the most magnificent advances in virtually every aspect of society.

Nature, and usually with the assistance of Man in some form, has a way, every couple of hundred years, whether through war, famine, or other natural disasters, of resetting things by wiping out a large chunk of the population. History will tell us it's inevitable, it's just a matter of where and when it will start...and what will be left, again, to rise and rebuild again out of the aftermath.

Cheerio!



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