September 22, 2016 Thursday
Bedtime Story
Industrialization needed resources
The Berlin Conference of November 15, 1884 was called upon to minimize jostling for the world resources by the powerful and greedy masters of the planet.
But mon ami, division of the world resources among its people or nations is a zero-sum game.
It is precisely like cutting a cake as was depicted in the cartoon.
Taking a larger piece reduces the amount left over for the others.
Germany sharply rose as an Industrial and economic power house after its unification and foundation of the empire in 1871.
In fact, all the European nations, the United Stated and Japan began to rapidly industrialize simultaneously as they saw the benefit of implementing the scientific revolution on a public scale.
Industrialization is cool.
Yet as is well known, everything comes at a cost; an important concept in biology, economics and cognitive decision making.
Industrialization entails building roads, laying down railway tracks, laying underground pipes both for the flow of clean water and sewage to and from every house, setting up of large factories and so on.
You can very well imagine the colossal resource required if it is done for every nook and corner of a country (as is seen in most developed countries).
Even today countries such as India, Russia, Brazil and other third world countries are struggling with the problem of crumbling infrastructure.
Supply of clean water and sewage/toilets with running water to even half of their populations is an unthinkable proposition for these nations with exploding humanity.
There is no way that those tiny nation states like Britain, France or Germany would have done it from the resources lying within their borders.
So how did these powerful nation states behave when faced with the dilemma of limited resources and expanding needs given that industrialization inescapable?
Exactly like microbes!
Yes Sir!
Unicellular life!
This wonderful paper by Michael Hibbing et al published in the Nature Reviews Microbiology in 2010 titled:
Bacterial Competition: Surviving and Thriving in the Microbial Jungle
gives a lucid account how microbes tackle the problem of limited resources.
Their similarity to human behavior is most eerie and uncanny.
We shall discuss this behavior of microbes in context to our recent history in the nights to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Bedtime Story
Industrialization needed resources
The Berlin Conference of November 15, 1884 was called upon to minimize jostling for the world resources by the powerful and greedy masters of the planet.
But mon ami, division of the world resources among its people or nations is a zero-sum game.
It is precisely like cutting a cake as was depicted in the cartoon.
Taking a larger piece reduces the amount left over for the others.
Germany sharply rose as an Industrial and economic power house after its unification and foundation of the empire in 1871.
In fact, all the European nations, the United Stated and Japan began to rapidly industrialize simultaneously as they saw the benefit of implementing the scientific revolution on a public scale.
Industrialization is cool.
Yet as is well known, everything comes at a cost; an important concept in biology, economics and cognitive decision making.
Industrialization entails building roads, laying down railway tracks, laying underground pipes both for the flow of clean water and sewage to and from every house, setting up of large factories and so on.
You can very well imagine the colossal resource required if it is done for every nook and corner of a country (as is seen in most developed countries).
Even today countries such as India, Russia, Brazil and other third world countries are struggling with the problem of crumbling infrastructure.
Supply of clean water and sewage/toilets with running water to even half of their populations is an unthinkable proposition for these nations with exploding humanity.
There is no way that those tiny nation states like Britain, France or Germany would have done it from the resources lying within their borders.
So how did these powerful nation states behave when faced with the dilemma of limited resources and expanding needs given that industrialization inescapable?
Exactly like microbes!
Yes Sir!
Unicellular life!
This wonderful paper by Michael Hibbing et al published in the Nature Reviews Microbiology in 2010 titled:
Bacterial Competition: Surviving and Thriving in the Microbial Jungle
gives a lucid account how microbes tackle the problem of limited resources.
Their similarity to human behavior is most eerie and uncanny.
We shall discuss this behavior of microbes in context to our recent history in the nights to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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