All animals in their nature exploit the resources they have access to in order to survive/multiply.
Humans however seem to have a trend of exploiting things to the max, even to our own detriment when we completely obliterate the land we’re using. Despite having the knowledge to thrive without destroying the planet, we still do it.
Is this human nature at this point, or something else? Interested to see what the science community thinks about how we go to this weird place in our species’ evolution
We’ve been reasonably steady for 10 thousands years.
this technological explosion and endless growth is a rarity and more like cancer. so unless there’s something inherently different between modern humans and humans 500 years ago, I’ll say no
That’s not quite true. The Roman Empire cut down forests all around the Mediterranean that haven’t recovered to this day.
my point is that becoming an expansionist greedy cancer is not the norm of human civilization, 10000 years of human civilization and only a handful of ecological collapses on these scales, like Romans, modern industrial society…