Save the tree, save the bees
Save the whales, save those snails

And the greatest arrogance of all,

“Save the planet”. What?! Are the fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. …

Q. Prompt:

“History repeats itself. This is a testimony to the stupidity of man.”

–Adapted from Edith Hamilton

“History does not repeat. It rhymes.”

–Mark Twain

Assignment: Does history repeat itself? […] Write an essay.

A. Does History Repeat Itself?

No — in my view, History does not repeat itself. I would concur with Mark Twain — ‘It [history] rhymes’.

It has been recognized since time immemorial, that there are certain patterns in nearly all our lives. These have also been extensively explored and researched in numerous fields. But we can see through numerous examples, the repetition of history — that ‘deja vu’, but just not quite.

Since the start of the Earth, it has undergone climatic changes of alternating heat and cold. Every few thousand years, an ice age sets in. The intensity is known to vary — but still — that’s quite a long-term rhyme, isn’t it?

We can see how we ourselves are currently suffering from a swine flu pandemic — ninety years later, once again. Perhaps even the disease evolved alongside human technology, and changed, but periodically it happened once again. Another rhyme, eh?

We are also suffering from a depression in the worldwide stock markets. Its coming was not entirely unexpected, though perhaps its intensity was. Stock market corrections happen approximately every five years, with some variance, and this depression is seventy years after the last one. The Great Depression of the 1930s was because of overproduction, and this time — the sub-prime crisis. Next time, the cause may be different, but stock market falls are bound to rhyme, and come again and again. 

This repetition — underlying pattern in the events of the world — have also been scientifically explained. Mathematicians believe in the Chaos Theory, which possesses techniques to spot patterns in the seemingly chaotic world, and even predict the future! Of course, it’s nowhere close to telling us when we’ll die; but it’s adequate to confirm how history does not exactly repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes with itself.

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How’dcha like it? Do tell me. You might’ve spotted it, but if you haven’t, there is a reason as to why I wrote this…

The world is in our hands, innit? No. That’s the terrible human-centric thought I was talking about, some time ago. And guess what? The UN[EP], did it again!

Really? The planet needs me? Uh huh?? 

I might be the sole juvenile around, but I think its me who needs the planet. The dependent me… And I hope you realize what I’m driving at. 
I think I forgot to complete the last post’s analogy, so here goes:

Our planet is five billion years old, and it has been changing constantly all during that time. […] Our atmosphere is as violent as the land beneath it. At any moment there are one thousand five hundred electrical storms across the planet. Eleven lightning bolts strike the ground each second. A tornado tears across the surface every six hours. And every four days, a giant cyclonic storm, hundreds of miles in diameter, spins over the ocean and wreaks havoc on the land.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. They can’t control the climate.

The reality is, they run from the storms.

  - State of Fear, by Michael Crichton

Moreso, our planet has not only faced more than 5 radically different climates, but also about 4 entirely different atmospheres. And there’s been life nearly all the way, since about 3 billion years ago. Of course, we are about just 18 million years old (as compared to the Earth’s 4500 million years), hence being too young to have any quantity of trustworthy knowledge. If only we accepted this humbly.

I could obviously, go on and on — but who’d care? I don’t think many. And I realize — even if you cared, you wouldn’t try to do anything. I would. For starters, I’ve tried to tell you about the current situation. =) And later, I bet I’ll make a difference. One that would definitely try to compensate for your part.

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