Global Warming and the Middle East would not be an issue, but these would:
Hypothermia
Heat stroke
Disease
Hunger and Famine
Lack of Water
Subsistence Farming, which does much harm to the environment
A greater inability to cope and help others in natural disasters
Tribal and Resource Wars, and Mass Murders
Violence, which shall be very big in the anarchy of small tribes due to lack of police
Infant Mortality
Superstitition
Very short life spans
A reduction of Human Population and a return to anarchy will merely bring these problems back.
Actually, the environment changed frequently, and tribes displaced each other frequently when they migrated due to the environment changes. Tribes did not want to share land; rather they took all of it.
It is optimistic in that it is the new way by which all problems can be solved, which is technology. Otherwise, science is optimistic in finally decreasing the free constants, since they are being decreased.
The major drive of science was not money, but curiosity. The physicists today are not trying to find out the secrets of physics for money, but because it is interesting and profound. Otherwise, it is for advancement. It is, in fact, for a better life, not only for oneself, but for humanity as a whole. It is thus, not just for money, but for confort, safety, and many other good things. It is for usefulness. The computer was not for money, but for our ability to compute useful things.
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Global Warming and the Middle East would not be an issue, but these would: Hypothermia Heat stroke Disease Hunger and Famine Lack of Water Subsistence Farming, which does much harm to the environment A greater inability to cope and help others in natural disasters Tribal and Resource Wars, and Mass Murders Violence, which shall be very big in the anarchy of small tribes due to lack of police Infant Mortality Superstitition Very short life spans A reduction of Human Population and a return to anarchy will merely bring these problems back. Actually, the environment changed frequently, and tribes displaced each other frequently when they migrated due to the environment changes. Tribes did not want to share land; rather they took all of it.
It is optimistic in that it is the new way by which all problems can be solved, which is technology. Otherwise, science is optimistic in finally decreasing the free constants, since they are being decreased.
The major drive of science was not money, but curiosity. The physicists today are not trying to find out the secrets of physics for money, but because it is interesting and profound. Otherwise, it is for advancement. It is, in fact, for a better life, not only for oneself, but for humanity as a whole. It is thus, not just for money, but for confort, safety, and many other good things. It is for usefulness. The computer was not for money, but for our ability to compute useful things.