As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Our history is not our destiny.
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