…really what have we achieved? We’ve solved problems and created medication that may or may not have been made worse by mankind, we’ve sent metal objects into space to explore.
This isn’t good enough? We’re the only organism on the planet…maybe even in the whole universe…whatever it may be, who has left this planet, which is the first step to securing our future. The one and only objective of any organism is to survive, and we need a plan to get off the Earth in order to survive…the Earth is a temporary lifeboat for us, it has a finite life and if we are to survive as a species then we need to get off it at some stage. So we’ve made a good start in our very small amount of time that we’ve been around. The Dinosaurs were around for 350 million years and didn’t do any of this, we’ve been around for a mere 150,000 to 200,000 years, so were still new comers to this planet.
We’re nowhere near ruining the entire planet and wont. The future generations will be far more educated about how the planet works and far more aware about our impact on it than us and previous generations, and the new technologies they invent will be far more friendly to the planet and they’ll reverse the man-made environmental issues that we’ve created so far. The planet can and will recover at an extraordinary rate. This has been demonstrated all over the world multiple times where industry has decimated entire areas and as soon as the industry moves away and the areas are left to nature, within ten years nature has returned and thriving…even in Chernobyl. So the planet and nature is very resilient.
So we’re plodding on nicely….100 years ago the global population was barely 2Bn with 95% of people living in poverty…it’s now heading towards 7Bn with less than 20% of the global population living in poverty and 50% of the global population now classified as ‘middle class’. So we’re improving the lives of everyone on the planet at a tremendous rate. That has to be an achievement.
Stop reading the news and the media. All you ever hear about are the bad things which gives you a distorted view of things. Things are nowhere near as bad or dire as the media makes them out to be. Our kids will lead different lives to us, socially, economically, but generally better lives. Go and look up Hans Rosling on YouTube.
Incidentally my top achievement of mankind was the invention of beer. It is so much more than a beverage…it was a catalyst to mankind inventing Social Structures, brought tribes and people together, mainly in the activity of brewing beer..it involves coordination, teamwork and brings people together both in the making of it and the consumption of it. Everything else sprung from that.