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The Devastating Slings and Arrows of Over-Globalization
What works during peacetime, falls completely apart if anything serious goes wrong.
These last few years haven’t exactly been easy on the human inhabitants of planet Earth.
Only look at the upheavals happening in Iran and China, the prospect of global thermonuclear war raising its ugly head again for the first time in decades, and the crisis of mental illness gripping America’s youth.
Our far-flung, unassuming third rock from the sun has seen some tough periods before, of course; ice ages, mass die-offs, natural disasters, catastrophic asteroid strikes, and the like.
Even planet Earth’s boom times have delivered major challenges.
No good deed goes unpunished, as the old saying goes. The fields of geology, anthropology and evolutionary human biology are no exceptions.
The Cambrian Explosion elevated some species and leveled others. The Agricultural Revolution led to unintended consequences aplenty, including — eventually — the Industrial Revolution and the Information Age — at great cost to mankind and the planet.
And a much longer human life expectancy.
Everything has consequences: Action, reaction.