JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE WRATH OF THE GODS IN A GODLESS WORLD! PART 2.

Yes, it is the case that our current lifestyle is predicated upon the principle of producing and consuming more material things.  

And that we have developed a tendency of increasing what constitutes 'basic and essential needs', according to the modus operandi of our respective societies. 

For example, whether we live in the more industrialised and technologically advanced societies, or in the less advanced ones.

And yet, we cannot expect to continue with this exponential increase in our populations, in our basic and affluence needs and demands on a a finite environment. 

One which does not have the natural capacity to replace resourced which we are extracting from it. 

The environment in which we live does not have the level of elasticity and renewability which our modus operanti is demanding from it. 

If we want to improve the lives of the billions of people who are not able to participate in the comparative affluence and rich lifestyles of the people of the northern hemisphere, the developed West.  

Then, in time, it is likely to cost them - and the rest of the world - what is left of their virgin forest. 

They, and the their western financial backers, are at risk of causing so much damage to their ecosystems, that they will have to pay an even greater price in the 'natural disasters' which are the subject matter of this post.

But, for the environmental exploiters, there is no or little connection between the terrible floods, earthquakes, landslides, droughts and famines, and reckless exploitation of the earth's 'treasures.' 

They prefer to deny any linkage, because it would be too much of an inconvenient truth. 

Of course, there is also the matter of many poor people being the primary or secondary architects of their long-term demise or misery. 

As they, in their time of need, also resort to recklessly exploiting their local environments. 

Either ignoring the fact that, once they have destroyed it, they deprive themselves of the opportunity of doing so in the future, as they ignore the need to 'replant' what they have reaped. 

As well as placing their localities at greater risk from ecological disasters.

To be continued.