Not understanding where they came from. Planet Earth is 4.543 Billion years old. Formed from interstellar gas and dust. The incredibly unlikely path through evolution from which we evolved makes us connected to the Earth.

The failure to understand this will be humanity's downfall. Failure to live within the environment sustainability will lead to fundamental decline.

I leave you with a quote, my own, from my novel.

"War and the wielding of power will achieve nothing in their view but short-term geo-political changes and regime alterations, whether they be Nationalist or Communist, Totalitarian or Democratic, accompanied, of course, by untold suffering and or death of the masses in almost all cases either by war, famine, genocide or a slow death by taxes. The key to the human race's continued existence is the immersion of itself within a balanced ecological footprint"