When a society fails to care for the environment that sustains it,

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revolutionofconsciousness:

when its population increases beyond the capacity of the land and water to provide adequate food for all, and when the unequal distribution of wealth widens into a gulf of social injustice, the result is disaster. The civilization collapses. History is replete with the ruins of civilizations such as the Mayans, Greeks, Incas, and Romans, that failed to recognize the constraints of their environment. Why are we unable to foresee the consequences of our practices?

Although this is true we can provide adequate food and water for all.

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  4. robrego answered: well in order for us to learn from our consequences we need to know about our past. Apparently we don’t. So i blame our education.
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  6. knowledgeappliedispower reblogged this from feministsbakecupcakestoo and added:
    Although this is true we can provide adequate food and water for all.
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  8. pigcharmer answered: Because we are able to foresee them. Those who aren’t able to are manipulated on a colossal level.
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  10. trashedandwroth answered: Because we have created human concepts that seem to reign more important within the schedules of our development through socialization?
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