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The Clock is Ticking Fast
A long time ago life began to form on the Earth. These lifeforms
began to gather energy from the sun in order to grow, and also, they
learned how to store it. As ecosystems grew, the lifeforms learned
that they could share the surplus energy and even use it to their
advantage. The sharing of the energy led to new lifeforms storing the
energy in different ways. Humans eventually came along and also
started to gather energy. We gathered berries, fruits, vegetables,
mushrooms and killed animals, in order to grow and maintain
ourselves as well as store some of that energy for the future, just as
all the other lifeforms were doing. Humans began to live in small
communities to balance the energy being gathered. Some humans
had too much energy, perhaps in terms of having too many of one
kind of fruit, while others had less, and they could rely on one
another when one was short of energy and another one had a
surplus. Humans also began to invent tools in order to gather energy
faster. At first these tools consisted of knives, hammers, scythes,
hoes, and so forth. Humans were insatiable and always wanted
things faster. We planted crops in fields, gathered them, and learned
to turn them into goods, for example, clothes. We developed ways to
transport our energy further from us in order to help communities
who were more distant and build networks of trade so if one
community had too much energy, they could bring it to another
community that was in lack. We developed wagons with wheels in
order to move larger loads of energy and also to move it faster using
the energy of horses. The larger the load and the faster the vehicles
went, the more energy the vehicles themselves required, for instance
more horses pulling, and the same applied to the machines being
built, for example machines with pedals that moved the machine,
requiring more energy input from humans. So