By Shahab Sabahi
Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
About 1500 BC, civilizations set about their social development process. They learnt how effectively carried out their affairs and produced surplus. This practice brought the civilizations prosperity. The development created a variety of social classes and caused population growth. More production was needed to satisfy the increase of demands. To keep their gods happy, the civilizations practiced more rituals and offered lavish sacrifices to gods. As the social class grew more diversified, elites should finance their worriers to maintain security and order within communities.
The development produced more complexity and had worrying consequences. Animal sacrifices, population growth and expanding cities left fewer territories available for hunting and breeding herds and less timbers for fire. At that point in time, worriers had established themselves as a source of power. To seek and secure new resources, they marched into neighboring communities and beyond, harassed other societies, and occupied their food stocks and resources. The violence destroyed more resources
This aggression and ruthlessness disgusted NOBLE human beings who perceived the spirit of humanity. The nobles set up the new school of humanitarian thoughts to transform lifestyles. One of their principles was “natural resources are scarce and sacred, do not exploit them for external sacrifices in rituals”
This approach introduced a new lifestyle that allowed humankind to exploit resources with respect and survive for long.
Today, we risk environmental catastrophe because we no longer see the earth as holey but regard it simply as a resource.
Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
About 1500 BC, civilizations set about their social development process. They learnt how effectively carried out their affairs and produced surplus. This practice brought the civilizations prosperity. The development created a variety of social classes and caused population growth. More production was needed to satisfy the increase of demands. To keep their gods happy, the civilizations practiced more rituals and offered lavish sacrifices to gods. As the social class grew more diversified, elites should finance their worriers to maintain security and order within communities.
The development produced more complexity and had worrying consequences. Animal sacrifices, population growth and expanding cities left fewer territories available for hunting and breeding herds and less timbers for fire. At that point in time, worriers had established themselves as a source of power. To seek and secure new resources, they marched into neighboring communities and beyond, harassed other societies, and occupied their food stocks and resources. The violence destroyed more resources
This aggression and ruthlessness disgusted NOBLE human beings who perceived the spirit of humanity. The nobles set up the new school of humanitarian thoughts to transform lifestyles. One of their principles was “natural resources are scarce and sacred, do not exploit them for external sacrifices in rituals”
This approach introduced a new lifestyle that allowed humankind to exploit resources with respect and survive for long.
Today, we risk environmental catastrophe because we no longer see the earth as holey but regard it simply as a resource.
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