Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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.
As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.