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The next 100 or full 5000?

Today during writing my environmental science paper something dawned upon me. I left my pen and sat there quietly giving respect to my thoughts. It took man thousands of years to become civilized.Again thousands to build dynasties and kingdoms. Then few hundreds to build factories and then suddenly we find ourselves in a very awkward situation where we are able to calculate how many years our resources will last if we keep consuming at the present rate. Around 1830 we reached 1st billion ,and now in 2015 we grew to 7 billion. Is this planet only for us? So many species are living with us sharing our resources and we are just using everything for ourselves. I am not adverse to change and speed of change but shouldn't we stop or better say halt at some point and take a look around? our destination might have descended down the horizon.The speed with which we are moving ahead,leave aside the resources,leave aside the pollution, even leave aside the population , just think h...