[Maypeevophy]

I have just copied the idea of this thread:

http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showthread.php?t=25774

In your opinion, what region of the world has destroyed most the world civilization? Explain why.

* Europe
* Asia (including the Middle East, but not Egypt)
* Africa (including Egypt)
* Americas
* Oceania

[tadacia]

Should be a fun thread.

[maxfieldj1]

Should be a fun thread.

Don't forget to vote, for the sake of statistics

[Piediahef]

Don't forget to vote, for the sake of statistics

I have to think about it. Give me some time.

[occallExtet]

europe and asia..mostly europe, but asia is catching up pretty fast.


im including US in with europe and not with the americas.

[chadnezzrr]

I have to think about it. Give me some time.

I did it multi choice by accident

[Drugmachine]

Asia definitely!

[CialisBestPrice]

I did it multi choice by accident

It's a tossup between Europe and Asia. Europe because of their colonization in the past 500 years, their several internal wars, the Roman and Greeks imperial expansions especially in Asia and Africa, WWI, WWII, the Cold War.

But Asians also have their fair share of imperial expansion into Europe and Africa with Atilla the Hun, Genghiz Khan, Tamerlane, the Persian empire, and etc. Asians, in general, were the most successful migrants in history. Migrations transform and sometimes destroys the newly discovered environment destroying native fauna and flora. Half of WWII was in Asia.

[Aaron757]

This question is too vague. Do you mean to ask which region has destroyed the highest amount of distinct civilizations, or which region has been most detrimental to the global level of civilization?
In the first case, the obvious answer is Europe for creating the modern world and thus indirectly destroying practically all pre-modern societies, including and especially its own, and in the second case, the question doesn't make much sense since the particularly destructive forces (Germanics, Central Asian steppe tribes) had the biggest impact on their own 'region'. The correct historical answer, then, would be 'nomads' regardless of which region they are arbitrarily grouped under.

[8jIDXQ80]

Destroyed what exactly. Human life / infrastructure / farming land.

And again it is multi select.
Would probably sum it up to be the US with all the military wars they have done on other countries. Irrespective what the reasons were.

[Sandvikla]

If we are talking about geologigal resources, we can say America because it has the most powerful country in the world (as the same way, Rome was the most powerful Empire in Eurasia so destroyed the 50% of iberian forests, for example).

Anyway, we are right now in a crisis of physical resources when they began to scarce (something that the 1973's crisis predicted but now we cannot avoid no longer). So the only exit is save resources with productivity.

[HonjUopu]

Europe and Asia (Middle East in my mind) in past but nowadays Americas

[Frdsdx26]

Who the fuck voted Africa?

[Ervntewc]

Who the fuck voted Africa?

Racists

[Auzuigcx]

Europe. On a physical as well as psychological level.

[TXmjLW9b]

Definitely the USA.

[hs6KnlcW]

Who the fuck voted Africa?

I did, given the shit hole that Africa is, it's clear destructive forces are more prevalent than productive ones.
Europe has been an overwhelming net force for creativity and productivity, destruction was just a minor but noticeable side effect of the high achievers getting it wrong every so often.

[Foriaelalse]

I picked Europe.

Europeans destroyed and colonized every continent. Australia, Europe, Middleast, Anatolia, Africa and Americas.

The former civilisations they whiped out and they weren't shy of massacring and slavery either.

[VipInoLo]

This question is too vague. Do you mean to ask which region has destroyed the highest amount of distinct civilizations, or which region has been most detrimental to the global level of civilization?
In the first case, the obvious answer is Europe for creating the modern world and thus indirectly destroying practically all pre-modern societies, including and especially its own, and in the second case, the question doesn't make much sense since the particularly destructive forces (Germanics, Central Asian steppe tribes) had the biggest impact on their own 'region'. The correct historical answer, then, would be 'nomads' regardless of which region they are arbitrarily grouped under.

True. It depends on how the question is to be understood. It depends on what is meant by "destruction". If we include internal destruction, then I'd say that China and the ME, especially the Levant, destroyed a lot of forested mountain areas, creating dry land and ecological disasters pretty early on, which resulted in drought and famine, as well as floods and mudslides.
Just look it up, destruction of the cedar forests in the Levant link and the much larger destruction of forests in Loess Plateau in China link , through a long period of time.

However, if the meaning is destruction of other civilizations, then probably Europe, by the colonization of the Americas, India and especially Africa.

[xanaxist]

I did, given the shit hole that Africa is, it's clear destructive forces are more prevalent than productive ones.
Europe has been an overwhelming net force for creativity and productivity, destruction was just a minor but noticeable side effect of the high achievers getting it wrong every so often.

Racist dumb muthafucka, Europeans cause most of the destruction in Africa.