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Originally Posted by redpoint5
It took everyone and all of history up until now to come up with it, even if just a handful of people provided the incremental technological improvements.
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The real answer is we are a people without history.
Many things could have been historically invented and ignored or wiped away by stupidity, like certain historical libraries (first in greece, then off the tip of africa by the Spanish).
The truth is we may well have known how to care for ourselves as well or better historically but we have no real idea of the events from 7000 years ago are.
The truth is no where in our recorded history has our population continued on the type of upward trend that it has experienced recently.
Based on birth rates we are likely going to end up in decline in 20 years or so but how do we deal with the exponential rise in disease caused by our own arrogance?
It is far easier to have a lower population and live more freely than to have a very high one on the edge with many constraints and artificial means to prop it up, burning through resources faster than they are created.
I'm not sure what environment you want to live in, but I rather have things free and less complex, without a boogieman to keep people in line.
Ah well.