Today sixty years ago, the Allied nations celebrated victory over Japan after America's dropping of two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally brought the surrender of Japan, ending World War II. Effectively the most destructive war in our short human history, the aftermath left nations in tatters as the participants sought to regenerate and recover. The end of the war should have marked a new era of peace, but the Cold War and new international disputes were only just around the corner.
It seems we have a penchant for flaunting the rules of human civilisation which make up our so called humanity - with war and conflict an integral part of our evolution to date, it remains to be seen how far we can progress before we self-destruct. Paradoxically, it is likely that our progression will also bring our downfall as technologies develop and more sophisticated weapons emerge, the seemingly inherent human urge for war and destruction could extinguish us.
Perhaps it will be our wanton ways with the resources of this planet which will be the ultimate undoing of the most sophisticated and 'intelligent' species to exist on Earth. How intelligent can we really be if we cannot stop ourselves from knowingly damaging the very environment our lives depend on? The only way to progress and survive is to use this intelligence to find ways to coexist with the Earth and each other, as ravaging the environment and human conflict can only shorten our collective existence as a race.
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