> In the hopefully not too distant future, when humanity grows out of its barbaric infancy and we cease to kill each other over petty disputes a long term global renewal project will commence.
What could cause this change?
What could be different tomorrow compared to the past many thousands of years of wars that will stop wars from happening?
War is pretty simple in the general sense. Limited resources (land being the main one), and selfish people. We have more technology today, yes, but we let the population explode so land resources are still quite limited.
If you're expecting people to just 'wake up' I'm afraid that wont happen now for the same reasons it did not happen in the past.
Cultures ebb and flow. You cannot expect anti-selfishness culture to be a forever-lasting deterrent to war.
I think the change will come through total surveillance, mutually assured destruction for nation states and genetic engineering for asymmetric threats.
When technology advances such that individuals have the power to cause massive destruction in lone wolf attacks, and science advances to the point where we have the ability, we will have the choice of whether or not we will allow traits such as psychopathy to continue in the gene pool or to be edited out.
We will come to a point where we will just not be able to tolerate the destructive power of anti social individuals.
I think we will edit out the sadistic, dominating and anti social parts of our nature or we will become extinct.
What could cause this change?
What could be different tomorrow compared to the past many thousands of years of wars that will stop wars from happening?
War is pretty simple in the general sense. Limited resources (land being the main one), and selfish people. We have more technology today, yes, but we let the population explode so land resources are still quite limited.
If you're expecting people to just 'wake up' I'm afraid that wont happen now for the same reasons it did not happen in the past.
Cultures ebb and flow. You cannot expect anti-selfishness culture to be a forever-lasting deterrent to war.