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How History Makes Today

Everything that has happened in the past dictates the future. That's basically what dictates everything people do. Everything that is happening now is a direct result of what has happened in the past and without knowing what happened in the past, it's impossible to know what will happen in the future. Learning about history can be the most boring thing in the world, but without that history a person wouldn't know that North Korea and all the problems associated with the country began, in part, because of the first World War, which wouldn't have started if Serbia hadn't tried to become it's own country. History is essential to reading a situation and knowing how to react to it, whether it was politically or militarily. When people find themselves without the knowledge of what happened in the past, they make the same mistakes that prompted the issues at hand. Without a history lesson, no good decisions can be made, not ones that will help for very long. As fo...

The Sixth Extinction

Humanity is unique. We have done great things for themselves, creating till we could touch the moon and talk over hundreds of miles. We’ve created so many things to make our societies and future generations as intelligent as us, from language to writing. Yet we’ve failed to address the fact that we can’t go on like this if we want everyone to live. The planet is overpopulated with humans, that is a fact. You can watch people be born and people die on the internet and just watching that clock move should scare you. Four children are born every second. Our population is growing  expoenetionally  and this planet can barely handle as many as we have now. There are simply too many people and too few resources. People are dying worldwide of hunger. The population of our species is out of control. It cannot be sustained on what we have on this planet.  There have been  five great extinctions , the most famous being the one of dinosaurs, which was the most...