The progress of civilization: Creation vs Destruction.

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  I am a big cartoon fan. Before the Netflix era, I used to watch Cartoon Network as an adult. Different cartoons are used to make fun of the pre-historical wheel invention by mankind. The wheel made of rock and clay is one of the earliest infections and it is the base of many important features in the human world. It has been used until today for transportation methods for big heavy objects, including us, and also for machines. Indeed it has a big importance for us. However, our species advanced so much in many aspects that we are even thinking of colonizing other planets. In my point of view, the biggest achievement of civilization is the internet.

  Sou um grande fã de desenhos animados. Antes da era da Netflix, costumava assistir ao Cartoon Network como adulto. Diferentes desenhos animados costumam fazer piadas sobre a invenção da roda pré-histórica pelo ser humano. A roda feita de pedra e argila é uma das primeiras invenções e é a base de muitas características importantes no mundo humano. Ela tem sido usada até hoje em métodos de transporte para objetos grandes e pesados, incluindo nós mesmos, e também em máquinas. De fato, ela tem uma grande importância para nós. No entanto, nossa espécie avançou tanto em muitos aspectos que estamos até pensando em colonizar outros planetas. Na minha opinião, a maior conquista da civilização é a internet.

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  Humans have been always concerned about information transmission. The world is big and how we could connect people separated by thousands of kilometers in distance? In our beginnings, we started to think about how to solve that. Ancient people began to use smoke with that purpose to warn other villages about attacks for example. After that, it came messages delivered by pigeons and bottles, but they weren't precise for sure. Humans invented messages transmitted by electricity so came the telegrams using special coding called the code Morse. But still, you had to be trained to understand these messages. A great revolution was the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, which allowed people to call each other over long distances, however, written message was still a challenge taking some time to be delivered from one spot to the other by regular mail. But the internet arrived in a great style with e-mails and instant messaging. The Internet allowed communication between any two spots in a world in milliseconds. Now we can do work meetings with people in different countries after having breakfast in our own homes, no need to travel saving money for companies. A whole conference with hundreds of people can be done online. Internet involved so much that even replaced cable TV. Now you can watch movies and channels using your internet connection. Nowadays it even created the possibility to replace physical money and banks. It is very difficult to foresee all the possibilities that the internet will bring in the future but for sure I am dependent on this invention.

  Os seres humanos sempre se preocuparam com a transmissão de informações. O mundo é grande, e como poderíamos conectar pessoas separadas por milhares de quilômetros de distância? Em nossos primórdios, começamos a pensar em como resolver isso. As pessoas antigas começaram a usar fumaça com esse propósito para alertar outras aldeias, por exemplo, sobre ataques. Depois disso, vieram mensagens entregues por pombos e garrafas, mas elas não eram precisas, com certeza. Os seres humanos inventaram mensagens transmitidas por eletricidade, e assim surgiram os telegramas, que usavam uma codificação especial chamada código Morse. No entanto, ainda era necessário ser treinado para entender essas mensagens. Uma grande revolução foi o telefone, inventado por Alexander Graham Bell, que permitiu que as pessoas se ligassem umas às outras a longas distâncias, no entanto, as mensagens escritas ainda eram um desafio, levando algum tempo para serem entregues de um local ao outro pelo correio regular.

Mas a internet chegou com grande estilo, trazendo e-mails e mensagens instantâneas. A internet permitiu a comunicação entre qualquer dois pontos do mundo em milissegundos. Agora podemos fazer reuniões de trabalho com pessoas em diferentes países após tomar o café da manhã em nossas próprias casas, sem a necessidade de viajar, o que economiza dinheiro para as empresas. Uma conferência inteira com centenas de pessoas pode ser realizada online. A internet se expandiu tanto que até substituiu a TV a cabo. Agora você pode assistir a filmes e canais usando sua conexão com a internet. Hoje em dia, ela até criou a possibilidade de substituir dinheiro físico e bancos. É muito difícil prever todas as possibilidades que a internet trará no futuro, mas com certeza sou dependente dessa invenção.

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  On the other hand, our civilization development also brought some problems for the world. The constant growth of our population with no natural predators started to make food a scarce resource. On behalf of city growth, many forests were cut, and trees and animal populations went down. In addition, our combustion machines produce tons of gases that are harmful to us, other animals, and even the planet by itself. The planet is dying and governments and people are trying to reduce our impact in this hurt environment. It is difficult to balance progression and sustainability. How we can progress more if the planet is dying? Are we going to conquer another planet to do the same? For this reason, we need to be more conscious of this problem and teach our kids how to progress and help the planet to survive. Our intelligence is being used to find other ways to generate energy and food in addition to solving trash problems. We have plenty of intelligence to continue our progress and hurt less the planet.

  Por outro lado, o desenvolvimento de nossa civilização também trouxe alguns problemas para o mundo. O crescimento constante de nossa população, sem predadores naturais, começou a tornar os alimentos um recurso escasso. Em nome do crescimento das cidades, muitas florestas foram desmatadas, levando à redução das populações de árvores e animais. Além disso, nossas máquinas a combustão produzem toneladas de gases prejudiciais a nós, a outros animais e até mesmo ao próprio planeta. O planeta está morrendo, e governos e pessoas estão tentando reduzir nosso impacto neste ambiente ferido. É difícil equilibrar o progresso e a sustentabilidade. Como podemos progredir mais se o planeta está morrendo? Será que vamos conquistar outro planeta para fazer o mesmo?

Por essa razão, precisamos estar mais conscientes desse problema e ensinar nossos filhos a progredir e ajudar o planeta a sobreviver. Nossa inteligência está sendo usada para encontrar outras maneiras de gerar energia e alimentos, além de resolver problemas relacionados ao lixo. Temos inteligência de sobra para continuar nosso progresso e causar menos danos ao planeta.



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You made a good point here, the highest advantage of civilization is the internet that we are enjoying today, in the other hand, food is scarce today due to human activities.

We pray for better environment for all.

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Truely spoken, technology has gone far and wide into the universe practically taking over the universe. There so much of technologies assistance to humans thereby making life easier.

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One thing we should is that change is constant, although civilization has done so many harm, we just have to follow the trend .

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Ótimos pontos mano, a internet com certeza foi algo que revolucionou tudo, aproximando as pessoas e acelerando o aprendizado de várias outras, em contra partida, infelizmente temos a questão ambiental que vem detonando o planeta. Encontrar um equilíbrio é preciso, apesar de ser difícil.

Obrigado por compartilhar!

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Internet revolucionou e continua revolucionando a cada novo passo… geralmente as tecnologias vao ultrapassando a outra e a antiga nao eh mais tao usado… a internet parece q nunca ficara desatualizada … o que fica desatualizado sao os produtos dentro dela heheh

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kkkk a evolução ta cada vez mais rápida mesmo, fica difícil acompanhar.

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Internet is the biggest advantage we got through civilization,yet we wouldn't overlook it's shortcomings like you mentioned. I also agree with you that teaching our kids on how to help the planet survive would be great and benefit the world at long run afterall the kids are the future of tomorrow

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Yep! I think that every new generation we make a better progress with new humans more willing to recover the environment!
!PIZZA

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And since I was little, I heard that plants breathe out the oxygen that we breathe in. Now imagine if all the plants were caught off... it does not make sense for real

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You're not the only fan of cartoons, even I loved cartoons a lot. I still do. Just that these days, we can't just have simple stories anymore. We have to deal with wokeness and everything that comes with it. Whew...

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I agree ! Our life is less gray with them :)

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Cartoon Network is also my favourite since childhood. Such a great speech on civilization. You have pointed out about the advancement such as internet and yeah there are many things about technology kept developing.

!PIZZA

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Gostei bastante deste post! É um historico de inveções que são utéis até os dias de hoje e que sem elas o mundo não seria o que é hoje. Imagine ficar sem eletricidade ou sem internet para ver o caos se instalar. A questão ambiental é importante para geração atual e principalmente para gerações futuras.

Eu realmente o jeito como expôs tudo isso em um só post! 😍

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Opa valeu cara! é pq vc tem os mesmos principios! hahaha um abraço!

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!HBIT

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The dangers that our activities poses to the planet calls for concern. Global warming through the depletion of ozone layer is worrisome.

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correct...also the global warming is something that is here to stay :)

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Temos inteligência mas o que falta é vontade mesmo de quem tem o real poder fazer as mudanças necessárias pra que a terra não continue sendo destruída. De qualquer forma, a consequência é que ela no decorrer do tempo, irá nos destruir de volta, aos poucos isso está acontecendo... Como culpar a natureza?

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Bem... dizem que Marte foi um planeta poss'ivel de se viver :P esse 'e o universo!

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Machine and technology are those things which were invented to make our life easy and comfortable and those things are doing the task but everything has a negative side also and it's impossible to avoid it. Civilization also has some but I feel that people of ill mentality maximise the damage or the negative impact.

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I think it is something about human nature and natural instincts to survive. Survive instinct is an individualist thinking, it is natural. But we have the capacity to think in the collectivity as well about our future and the impact in our surroundings. For example, a big cloud of grasshoppers. Each one of them is just thinking about surviving and eating, as a collectivity they don't think so they just end with food resources in one spot and go to another. If you go up in the phylogenetic trees you can start to see animals that think a bit more in the collectivity, moms taking care of their sons, or even social animals that each one of them contributes for their group. When you get to humans you see this capacity of collectivity bigger because we evolved more our brains to understand more what is happening and what are the consequences of our acts. But still, you see primordial instincts that bring bad behaviors like greed!

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On behalf of city growth, many forests were cut, and trees and animal populations went down. In addition, our combustion machines produce tons of gases that are harmful to us, other animals, and even the planet by itself.

But for this there's also trees being planted as well. I think as our technology evolves though there shouldn't be a problem mitigating the destruction to mother nature etc but let's see how it goes. There's greedy people out there that might try to keep things the way they are but I think the community will win if enough people care.
https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/plant-a-billion/

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Nice that you cited this website! there are others around too =) , onetreeplanted.org is cool also and there is one exclusively to Canada ( so you can also add that to your tax return): treecanada.ca
In addition, I always try to plant a tree if I have a free spot in my house :P my old house I planted 3 trees, now I don't have much space in my backyard and the old owner planted an oak tree which I try to continue the care to grow more and more ...

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wow O.O i didnt plan any trees but im glad people are doing it to balance out the destruction of the trees. anyways there will be a balance between creation and destruction. everything is going according to the agenda. of course i cite some website cant be making shit up gottta prove myself

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