Human beings are absolutely amazing. We as humans are, for the most part, very good at adapting quickly to the situations we are in. For example, a family from my church who has lived here in the United States for their entire lives just picked up and moved to Sierra Leone, Africa. Although difficult at times, they have been able to adapt to their new lifestyle fairly quickly. But when given circumstances such as population growth, innovation, natural events, and human events, can humans still adapt successfully? I believe wholeheartedly that a person can learn all that is necessary to be an independent and responsible member of the culture before he or she dies. The world changes extremely fast and it seems as more and more time goes on, the faster the world changes. For example, when looking at a technology timeline, a person can see that from 2400 BC to the year 1 AD, there were only three major technological inventions. From 1 AD to the current year of 2015 AD, there has been a total of about 134 major technological inventions. In about the same amount of time, there was a startling difference of the amount of technological inventions that happened during the two time spans. This is just one example of how the world seems to be changing faster and faster as time goes on. I believe that the speed at which inventions and discoveries are being made is because of the amount of information that humans know and understand. As time goes on, more information is being discovered. This can make it take longer to become an independent and responsible member of the culture, but I don’t think that it makes it impossible. It just requires more schooling and a longer period of time to learn it all. That can be an issue for some who might not live for a large period of time, but generally speaking life expectancy has increased more and more as time has progressed. This fact makes all of the new information and time needed to understand the information not seem like such a big deal. Natural and human events happen all of the time. Horrible storms ruin homes, kill innocent people, and separate families. Human events such as acts of terrorism kill many people and terrify many more. These events, especially human events, increase more and more as time goes on. Events like these are extremely horrible and gruesome, but they do not prevent most people from becoming an independent and responsible member of the society. For some, yes this can prevent that from happening because these events kill people. For others it may scare them or kill someone close to them and they may shut down as a result of that. But for the majority of people, these events just cause them to adapt to whatever change comes from it. For example, when I was around twelve years old a tornado hit the town that I lived in. My house was fine besides some shingles needing replaces and a broken window. My friend on
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This is because the population of the world increases every single day. The problem with this is, the world is not getting any bigger. There is already a large number of people who can’t become independent and responsible members of the culture because of a shortage of resources like food, water, and shelter. This number will only increase with the population growth. However, with the population growth comes adaptation. This is true on a smaller scale and a larger one. For example, my parents made up a family of two before they had children. Then all of a sudden one day that family of two became a family of five when my brother, sister and I were born. Despite this population growth in the family, my parents adapted to the change and still were able to be independent and responsible members of the culture. On a larger scale, this fact gets a little trickier. The way I see it, when the overall population grows, the potential for new inventions and discoveries increases. In the future, there could be an invention so people could live in the sea. That seems far-fetched now, but the cell phone seemed far-fetched back in the 1800’s
This is because the population of the world increases every single day. The problem with this is, the world is not getting any bigger. There is already a large number of people who can’t become independent and responsible members of the culture because of a shortage of resources like food, water, and shelter. This number will only increase with the population growth. However, with the population growth comes adaptation. This is true on a smaller scale and a larger one. For example, my parents made up a family of two before they had children. Then all of a sudden one day that family of two became a family of five when my brother, sister and I were born. Despite this population growth in the family, my parents adapted to the change and still were able to be independent and responsible members of the culture. On a larger scale, this fact gets a little trickier. The way I see it, when the overall population grows, the potential for new inventions and discoveries increases. In the future, there could be an invention so people could live in the sea. That seems far-fetched now, but the cell phone seemed far-fetched back in the 1800’s