Essay about The Future of Mankind

During the course of The Baron’s Cloak, Sunderland takes us through Russia’s western borders and St. Petersburg. He then takes us to the Far East side of the empire to Siberia and the eastern edges of Mongolia and China. We are exposed to the often misunderstood politics of nationalism and imperialism of Eurasia at this time of the 20th century.

‘dark ages’ no progress? Regression he argues that there are things and events that happened which form Europe as it is today …

A famous philosopher Socrates once said, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' With that idea, the question 'Are Human Beings Intrinsically Evil?' has been asked by philosophers for many years. It is known as one of the unanswerable questions. Determinists have come to the conclusion that we are governed by the laws of science, that there is nothing we can do about ourselves being evil because we naturally are. Evil is simply the act of causing pain. In this essay I will argue that human beings are born with a natural reaction to 'fear and chaos' to be instinctively evil.

Humanity is confronted by multiple environmental challenges which threaten to undermine the advances in health achieved over recent decades. The Rockefeller Foundation/Lancet Commission on Planetary Health showed how climate change, loss of biodiversity, land use change, ocean acidification and overfishing, nitrogen and phosphorus loading and environmental pollution more generally all have the potential to adversely affect health through a range of pathways1. A recent joint publication by WHO and Convention on Biological Diversity articulated the myriad connections between biodiversity and health and the threats to both posed by environmental change2. The dramatic changes in the global environment have led many scientists to conclude that we are living in a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – in which the activities of one species – homo sapiens -have become the dominant driving force transforming the Earth’s natural systems3. These natural systems provide food, clean water and air and modulate the global temperature within limits in which humanity has been able to flourish for around 11,500 years during the preceding Holocene epoch.

Towards the end of the Middle Ages era Europe made technological advances and continued to grow as a community. Gray C. Boyce in his excerpt from “The Medieval Period” describing the middle ages, argues, “Even at its worst it performed the function of guarding, frequently by accident and chance, the knowledge and treasures of what had come before, but even more it was creative and inventive, and transmitted to later ages great riches of its own,”. The author is proving that although Europe was indeed imperfect like most things, it was exceptional as well. The author is making the point that even during the worst times it was protective, creative, and knowledgeable. All of the attributes the author described are what made Europe so successful, and shows the reader that Europe was a prosperous, creative, and successful community.

In his book, “A Short History of Progress”, Ronald Wright argues that the way things are progressing in society today very closely mimics the progress of our ancient ancestors. If we keep this up, we too will fail just as they did. Much like ancient civilizations, we have become victims to the ideology that we are making progress and have turned a blind eye to certain flaws; the irreparable damage with which this mentality threatens us will prevail in the end. Wright states that “if we see clearly what we are and what we have done, we can recognize human behavior that persists through many times and cultures…this can tell us what we are likely to do, where we are likely to go from here” (pg. 2). In other words, although we cannot foresee the

Jared Diamond delves deep into humanity’s history in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel in attempt to answer a question imposed upon him by Yali, a New Guinean politician. Diamond weaves together many theories and historical examples, such as the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro’s defeat of the Incas, to explain why humans have developed at vastly differing rates. Yali asked a question that had stumped historians for decades and Diamond dissects and reassembles the phrasing often. In order to give his most complete answer, the author takes a look at both post 1500s inequalities, and differing rates of development throughout human times. The examination of Pizarro’s defeat of the large Inca force came first at the battlefield and continued

Despite mankind’s best effort, the history of mankind is a wrinkled mess. These wrinkles are due to mankind’s inability to stop history from repeating itself several times over. However, the idea of history repeating itself is not new to the literature of today’s society. There are several more causes for wrinkles in mankind’s history. In fact, Ronald Wright argues that not only the idea of history repeating itself, but also the idea of mankind progressing to the point that progress becomes detrimental to mankind will result in the extinction of mankind. Therefore, Wright’s argument in A Short History of Progress should shape the discussion of responsible citizenship because his viewpoints show how human ignorance allows mankind to progress towards extinction.

For instance, the mighty Roman Empire, which was much more technologically advanced and urbanized than its barbarian neighbors, was crippled by political corruption, apathetic citizens, and religious conflict. It didn’t matter how developed the Romans were; their internal issues allowed the Germanics to conquer them. The strength of cultural values, the cohesion of a society, and the charisma and contributions of individuals are not measured by the society’s technological advances and must be accounted for in a complete view of world

History is the most imporant thing in the world because it affects people and societies all around the world. Traces of history go all the way back millions of years ago forming wealth and power to this day. In this book Jared Diamond is determined to explain why there were so many different rates of human development on different continents and uses his opinions and information to back it up. There is evidence proving some theories to be correct while others are more questionable making Diamond even more curious to explain the unknown.

The book As We Are Now, written by May Sarton, targets those concerned with the care of elderly individuals in nursing homes. In the book, Sarton artistically highlights the plethora of ongoing issues social workers face in their work as they attempt to provide quality care to the elderly population. The book is written as the memoirs of a very thoughtful elderly woman, Caroline Spenser, as she spent part of her life in a nursing home; and brings to light the lack of quality of care that elderly individuals received when living in such a facility in the 1970’s.

Since the beginning of the human race, the ocean has been a major source of food. People near the shores have been taking of advantage of the ocean’s rich and diverse source of nourishment for centuries, both as a source of food and a livelihood. However, since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have begun to take from the ocean more that it can give. As a result, the ocean can no longer provide the human race with the abundance that it once did. As technology rapidly advances, populations skyrocket, and global warming spreads havoc, the ocean’s biodiversity and once abundant supply of fish is dwindling, calling marine scientists and experts to race to find solutions that will restore the oceans health while battling world hunger.

to be grown trees have to be cut down and I have explained the effects

The Medieval Ages that descended upon the Europeans following the deconstruction and devolution of the formerly grand institutions of the Roman Empire left a world darkened to the eyes of history. The world lost touch with simple concepts to a modern history student of writing, economy, culture, and government—the mainstay of that which we cannot see ourselves without—civilization. What was left of Europe was a state of chaos. In all other periods of human history I have studied there were similarities among them from which I could draw conclusions upon the condition of the respective times. The Text helped to give order to the progression of European history from the ancient to the modern drawing

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s recent accession to Russia are events that clearly highlight the underlying sources of conflict in global politics. While Russia sees its actions in Crimea as a “reunification” and the respect for the right of self-determination, the West views it as a threat to European security and a violation of territorial integrity. Crimea has been a debatable topic from the time it came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great. The justification then was similar to the reasoning being used by Vladimir Putin today. Catherine declared that she was protecting ethnic Russians in the region from the Ottoman Empire, much as Putin is claiming to protect Russians from Ukrainian