Recently I've been reading that Governments being blamed for natural disasters like Hurricanes like the way few were blamed for origination and spread of Covid like diseases at the time. Data says there were 37 natural disasters between years 1980 to 1990 where in from 2023 from 2024 (till date) it is 41. A number held in 10 years was taken over in 2 recent years. These are numbers just from US alone which makes it further interesting. Now you may add the numbers of war outbreaks, gun violence and so on towards a global number this time. It will tell similar stories. Also to note Covid pandemic outbreak was pre 2023s (2019-2021s) and may not be classified as natural disaster, as you might imagine the number it might add up to if that's the case in terms of damages. No wonder few were blamed, because sane minds seek causes without looking out for dooms day nearby. If not capable to reason we tend to hallucinate or fill in the details ourself based on some logic which may not be fact based.
Often, I think we might be more in number with less resources to consume. Now we reached at a point where news is coming out from many parts of the world, poaching the wild is being allowed to avoid starvation due to famine. Underprivileged countries are seeking migration where in Privileged are closing boarders. Then many complain on population decline even suggesting citizens to have more offsprings to colonize other planets and to be utilized in wars. It doesn't end there these days, hoarding wealth (stopping flow of money) and knowledge are being enforced in many ways. But how any of these are practical I wonder considering longer term.
System has made the world in such a way that information sharing itself creates wealth and less ways to hoard. Starting from Social Media, Instant Messaging, Academic Content Providers etc till latest advancements like GenAI etc will enable it in many ways for people to gain knowledge no matter which part of the world they live in. Especially with Countries are competing with each other fiercely foaming coalitions. Over the time we will see many small players challenging established players due to these advancements. System acts as the 'benevolent dictator', so it doesn't care much on human rationales like countries and so on. So, let's take the example of hoarding wealth, what good is wealth if a severe natural disaster is struck. Same goes with population, what good is with having more children if a pandemic can wipe many from every one of us. Worst-case would be wars.
Now if we can step back and think, we are self-destructing while system is trying to maintain balance in its own way as that is what is what it is designed to do. May be due to the limitation of the current iteration where in it is kept hidden from outside. Even with that also it communicates with every one of us constantly in many ways sometimes even perspectives to think about, which we tend to blindly ignore. Harmless way is to naturally transform than forceful reshaping. Think of this, what if all the countries with less population density are welcoming people how seek to migrate (like countries from Africa) rather than caring about bloodlines. Even we could even give an entire continent flourish with other species. Another scenario could be like this, approximate if each person from rest of the world pledges 1000+ dollars to continent Africa alone, it is supposedly become par with Chinese standards in terms of wealth, also this could enable/preserve habitats for rest of species with modern preservation standards. May be, this one sound so easy in theory. Unfortunately, this may not be financially sustainable for the same reason being why donations are not treated as part of GDP. Unlike these aggressive moves, natural transformation looks like this. Low-income countries should earn more than high income countries while adding more value than later. Migrants/Seeking should be embraced freely by the countries that has enough resources to support, without scrutiny. I do believe, the moment we start acting on these System will relax its norms. Penetrating our traditional mental barriers of thinking can be challenging as it is against status quo. Till that it might forcefully equating things by taking many away from us till it finds an equilibrium. We might end up repeatedly hearing unfortunate stories of natural calamities, pandemics, social violence, accidents, wars and so on. May be like the way theorists say Dinosaurs went extinct. There could be none stopping it or only harder ways, once we are into that stage of the game.