When Sorrows Come: The Limitations of Humanity

ISBN-13: 9781483969480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 96 str.

Peter Lockhart

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The Dinosaurs were going along just fine. That can be said too about the Incas and Aztecs. They were going along fine too. And we too have been going along just fine for a time. But then, a meteorite changed everything for the Dinosaurs. For the American Continents, everything changed the instant Christopher Columbus set his foot there. To think that nothing could ever go wrong has always been wrong thinking. Complacency, history tells us, always goes before the fall of an empire, a civilisation or an entire species. There have been "Golden Ages" in history, and then in an instant, it comes to a sudden, violent and ignominious end. Peter Lockhart asked the question: "What could possibly go wrong?" This piece answers it. We are doomed like the Dinosaurs. It could be from lies and deceit, greed and corruption that have brought economic ruin and war, or from our own stupidity the collapse of the seas from over fishing and pollution. The struggle for food has unleashed disease scourges on humanity that get worse not better. Humans at Pompeii next to Mount Vesuvius epitomise humans everywhere. They know the danger, but do nothing until it's much too late. That is when sorrows come.