Time for a brief history lesson, lets go back a bit further before advent of the 'R' word towards the end of the last ice age which on the calendar is called the Mesolithic (2) period when mankind were hunter gathers eating meat, fish and living as part of nature not shaping it. The population was low purely because there wasn't enough food to go around. They had domesticated the dog for hunting as well.
At this point in the planet's history the land is warming up and changes in the environment is changing mankind's behaviour. For instance the first known battle occurred at Cemetery 117, what they were fighting about is a complete mystery.
Scrolling forward a few thousand years we come to the Neolithic period which is really the beginning of the end of living with nature. This is the age of farming, now we are shaping the land to suit us. The population increases because there is more food, people are staying in one place and the concept of ownership rears its ugly head.
Aside from the changes in technology nothing really has changed since. Mankind lost it connection to nature when they became farmers and started adapting the land to suit themselves. This change in behaviour is one of the causes of every major war in history, as the population grows you need more land. One of the other causes is of course one's belief structure which oddly enough is closely connected to needing more land. Man's needs are quite simple really, we are three meals away from anarchy no truer word has spoken of the western world. If we were still hunter gathers living with nature then would the world be a better place?!?
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