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In the first few millennia of the history of civilization, natural environmental constraints were the main driver of (and limit to) human ingenuity. New technology arose from the need to survive in challenging environments.
Starting in the Antiquity, inter-cultural conflict & cooperation replaced nature as the main catalyser of progress. War, trade, competition started shaping the curriculum of civilization.
I would go as far as saying that the particular environmental and historical circumstances of a civilization program the direction and speed of its progress in an almost deterministic way
The need to rise up to the existential challenge of climate change will likely guide the next chapter of our progress over the next few centuries
I agree with this sentiment, but what would you define as “too harsh” if not war?
War *can* be too harsh, if it destroys you, which is certainly something that has happened repeatedly in the past and has caused civilizational regressions (e.g. Bronze Age collapse). But every war has a winner and a loser, and the loser may not necessarily end up crushed
In-short evolution of life is like a video game, hard but not that unplayable hard.
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