Why Is Progress Bad?

Progress is always occurring, in good ways and bad ways. But for the most part, progress is usually bad even though it may seem good. No one can look into the future and say, “Hey, don’t do that, it’s not going to work out” which is why progress should be seen as a bad thing. If someone were to look back on history and look very closely at the things that changed the world for the better, they would see that it was in fact a bad thing that happened. One case that can clearly show this is the Industrial Revolution (both the first and the second). In the industrial revolution, many new things were being found out, like steam power, fossil fuels, new ways of mining, the Bessemer process, railroads, and more. The key is that so many things were being found out and they were all so positive to humanity…in the short run. In the long term effects, you could see even today: global warming, poverty, pollution, birth defects, bad working conditions (everywhere in the world), and bigger tensions between the rich and the middle/lower class. And eventually, all these progressions would lead to learning more about the small things, like atomic energy. The Atomic Era gave way to new sources of clean energy, new jobs for people, and all new things to look for in science. The Atomic era also gave way to new weapons of mass destruction, the possibility of a World War that can most likely terminate all of humanity and maybe even all of life on Earth, new causes for cancer, birth defects, etc. Now that you see how many bad things all this progress has brought up. And all of this wouldn’t have happened if not for the Neolithic revolution. The Neolithic revolution, or the Agricultural revolution, was the very start of almost all progress in human history (or prehistory). The Neolithic revolution is when humans began to realize that you could grow food, which completely changed the processes of human life at that time. Now, people could gather around in bigger groups than before