Evolution has unbalanced the planet

Our evolution has led to environmental imbalance throughout history; culminating in the Industrial Revolution with the exploitation of coal mines and new energy sources – oil and gas. A century later, our planet is experiencing a major climate crisis due to this “culture of death” that continues to spread over the entire globe to sacrifice the last natural sanctuaries and their age-old guardians.

Racism, wars and colonization are part of this strategy of shock¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine, to quote Naomi Klein²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein, and of the absorption of peoples, which is the basis of capitalism.

The obsession with “development” is always brought to the fore with unabashed humanism: we must help those who are “different” and therefore “weak” in terms of the values imported by the dominant culture, helping them by questioning or annihilating their system of thought, their languages, their traditions.

But how did this process get started ?

It arose during the Neolithic period, when farmers from the countries of the Crescent arrived with their animals, and began to settle. They create property in a world of nomads who lived in longhouses.³houses which, unfortunately, have gradually led to thedisappearance of Europe’s primeval forests.

At the very beginning of their genesis…

200,000 years ago, homo-sapiens left southern Africa north of Botswana to begin the first migrations, leaving behind them the ancestors of the San⁴The name “Bushmen” derives from the Dutch ” bosjesman “, introduced by the Boers, a people related to the Khoïsan group of click-speaking people.

Whether in the Americas or the southern hemisphere, representatives of the most ancient hunter-gatherer tribes all over the world were eventually sedentarized after being driven off their lands by settlers for mining…

To understand the workings of colonialist thinking – its territorial and ideological conquest – we need to go back to the roots of this permanent state of war engendered by sedentarization.

At the end of the Pleistocene, the last ice age, man left the Neolithic for the Bronze Age. It is during the period between 14500 and 11500 BC, during the Natoufian⁵https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natoufien that the first villages of hunter-gatherers appear in the Near East. It wasn’t until the end of the ^7th millennium that human groups in the Fertile Crescent put an end to their nomadic lifestyle, developing agriculture and livestock breeding.

The abandonment of this way of life led to profound changes. While nomadism limited births to one child every three years to ensure the group’s survival, sedentarization has led to a very rapid rise in demographics.

In addition, the structure of hunter-gatherer society, which was initially matrilineal and egalitarian – generally matrilocal⁶Descent assured by the women, the men move to the women with whom they unite, avoiding the consaguinity. – gave way to patriarchy. The perception of the world changes. Henceforth, the man dominates nature and the woman loses her status⁷A key moment in history where the figure of the Mesopotamian hero Gilgamesh killing the sacred bull, symbol of the indomitable nature, stands out. The Epic of Gilgamesh, an Assyrian text from the 7th century BC, is inspired in its account of the flood by the Babylonian myth of Atrahasis, a Mesopotamian tradition inspired by the great flood..

With the building of the first cities, territorial and cultural colonization and syncretism begin; this impulse to rewrite history, proper to the patriarchy, will annihilate the history and the heritage of ancient civilizations of a high spiritual level.

Sumer was the first civilization to build cities and to master writing. Around 3500 BC, the founders of Uruk built a wall to protect their people, the first city that would become the breeding ground of values perpetuated to this day. It was here that the exploitation of the land’s riches and trade began.

Centuries later – in the 6th century BC – the emergence of monotheism transformed the world order once again. By dispersing, the Abrahamic tribes⁸Descendants of Noah who survived the Black Sea flood spread stories inspired by a single god, initially Indo-European, opposed to polytheism and original animism. It is on this ideological and religious ground that European imperialism germinates, a political system whose strategy of conquest is intimately linked to a civilizing mission.

The time zero coinciding with the death of Christ⁹Time marking the advent of the Judeo-Christian religion, the Jewish-Palestinian prophet, subsequently annihilates the ancient times, throwing into oblivion all previous civilizations and their knowledge. In 325, the conversion of the Emperor Constantine allows the establishment of the foundations of the Christian Church recognizing the authority of the Pope of Rome during the Council of Nicea, called “Holy, Catholic and Apostolic”.

From then on, religion will be led to leave its spiritual framework, to lend a hand to the political systems that enslave the peoples and colonize “terra incognita“¹⁰https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_incognita. Heroes believing themselves to be invested with a divine mission, such as Christopher Columbus, criss-crossed the seas to destroy the false beliefs that were rampant in

these hitherto inaccessible lands, spreading their paradigms and terror on their steps. New worlds emerge, stirring up the fever of gold and exoticism. It’s the time of colonization, the process of enslaving people in order to disproportionately exploit the planet’s natural resources…

The “time of the inversion of values” is slowly emerging, draped in halos and the gold of idols.