Should we be looking at history for lessons about the future?
By Lethbridge Herald on September 11, 2024.
Editor:
We can’t eat money.” Alberta’s population is exploding. More people are crushing the “Alberta Advantage.”
Our beauty, our water, our cities, our housing is inflating to the disadvantage of our people. What we love about our Alberta, blue sky, white mountains, green forests, blue rivers. All are changing the more we want, the more we are encouraged to think “More.” Are we being hypnotized by the economy? City traffic is becoming uncontrollable, fire and pollution becoming unmanageable. The faster we go, the less control we have. Oh, it’s an exciting ride – until we crash. History may be giving us an example of the extinction principle. We are eliminating life forms, the heritage and variety of forms of life. Will we eliminate our own species, too eventually? It may have happened before.
Our advanced science cannot fathom how the ancients cut, polished, and moved 100 ton blocks of granite.
Why did all the high cultures of the past – Aztecs, pre-Maya, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, and Japanese “disappear?”
Their ancient cultures bloomed, then died. Should we be looking back in history for lessons about our future? If we travel down the AI wormhole, will we leave our grandchildren to chip rocks for spearpoints?
Don Ryane
Lethbridge
9-8
too bad we do not place at the forefront the health and sustainability of all that we need in order to pass on a living world to our future, rather than play a numbers game to satisfy inanimate monetary figures.
So here we are in Alberta with exploding population growth and many areas in Alberta are still, dealing with drought conditions. We have not had enough rainfall or snowpack to make up the deficit. Perhaps the question could be: if Alberta suffers enough lack of water for an exploding population, will folks actually relocate to where there’s more water, for example, the Great Lakes? We have already seen migration of hundreds of millions of peoples globally due to lack of water. Perhaps we should think again, whether it could happen here.
“Migration and Water”
http://www.environmentalmigration.iom.int/migration-and-water