Learning from the Demise of Ancient Civilizations-The Spiritual Ecology Series

- Part of "The Spiritual Ecology" Series, authored by Master Hsin Tao

Cross-disciplinary domain research findings have time and again asserted that the cyclic development of civilizations on Earth almost certainly pre-dated the oldest of our time by more than tens of millennia, or even longer still. Myriads of years before, people before our dawn of civilization already possessed technologies far more advanced in sophistication and mission-critical performance. Yet none of such highly developed civilizations before our time managed to survive what our planet endured. If mankind inadvertently inflicts irrevocable damage on the Earth's organic ecology, we rob ourselves of the dim chance to go for sustainability and issue a verdict of demise to our planet and a death sentence to life on Earth as we know it.
The demise of ancient civilizations was probably due to the inappropriate use of natural resources. In our recent history, we note that the advancement of science and technology was critical in improving agricultural yield and industrial output which combined to facilitate material progress for mankind but failed to factor in sustainability considerations. When natural resources are gone through exhaustion, war, famine, and pandemics among other calamities can all trigger an impact on the critical tipping point to mankind's disadvantage. We need to consider ourselves forewarned when thinking back to past mishaps.