Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
Crises are harbingers of evolution.
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
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