the lord of all monsters

Chapter 255 Let's Read More About History
"Do you really think that killing half of the people can save the universe?"

Zhang Yu asked:
"Or, do you think that relying on killing people can solve problems such as environmental pressure and lack of resources?"

"certainly……"

Thanos hasn't figured out the question just now, so his voice is not very confident.

"Well, it seems that studying too much philosophy is really not good for your brain. I suggest you read more about history and sociology, or study mathematics."

Zhang Yu didn't give him any face, and taunted him directly.

"You think I'm wrong?"

Thanos was not angry, he was going to listen to what Zhang Yu would say first, and if what he said made sense, then let him die in peace later on.

Looking at the fierce look in Thanos' eyes, Zhang Yu said without any stage fright:
"Environments with limited carrying capacity, insufficient resources, leading to civil wars, mass death, there are such things."

"Then you still..."

"But this only exists in agricultural societies with an extremely low level of civilization!"

Zhang Yu interrupted Thanos and said loudly:
"Under the extremely low level of civilization and technology, you can't use your own efforts to compete with the general trend of nature. Such things will indeed happen, but is this the case with the civilizations you slaughtered and want to slaughter?"

No.

The civilization of Thanos massacre is very mixed, and there is no specific standard, basically kill when you encounter it.

As long as it is not a particularly difficult civilization, Thanos will kill it.

But basically they are all civilizations after entering the industrial age, and there are also many civilizations in the space age.

On the contrary, because the civilization of the agricultural era is too primitive, there are countless green mountains and green waters on the entire planet. In the eyes of Thanos, his help is not needed for the time being.

"Moreover, killing people will not solve the problem of environmental carrying capacity and allow civilization to develop further. It will only make things worse."

Zhang Yu said quietly again:

"In the ancient times of the earth where I live, civilizations generally show the characteristics of a cyclical cycle."

"The life cycle of a dynasty starts from the beginning, then prospers, and finally goes to decline until it is replaced by the next dynasty. It is a continuous cycle."

"In the early days of the dynasty, the population was small, resources were abundant, civilization developed rapidly, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. This is the first half of most dynasties."

"However, as time goes by, the population increases, the environment becomes more crowded, resources are limited, and each person can get fewer and fewer resources, and whenever this happens, wars will break out."

"Either the internal peasant uprising, or the invasion of foreign enemies, or both, after a long war, if the dynasty cannot survive successfully, it will be destroyed and replaced by other newly rising dynasties."

"Because of the massive deaths of the people in the previous wars, the population has dropped to an extremely low level, and a large amount of resources have been vacated again. The environment can bear the burden and there is still plenty to start a new cycle of dynasties."

"But what's the use of that?"

"The decrease in population will not solve any problems. As time goes by, the population will increase, and even because of the increase in resources and to heal the pain, people will have a greater desire to have children than before."

"Until several hundred years later, the population reaches the limit of the environment's carrying capacity again, and a new reincarnation begins."

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, Thanos was a little distracted. He seemed to be able to see the long river of history flowing in front of his eyes, and the reincarnation of dynasties once in hundreds of years quickly appeared in front of his eyes.

Countless people live and multiply on a small piece of land like ants to form a country, and then as the population increases, the crowds start to kill each other in order to compete for food.

With the reduction of the population, the spare environmental resources allow civilization to develop again.

This is the theoretical basis for his desire to slaughter half the population of the universe.

But the story is not over yet, as time goes by, the population will increase and the war will start again.

It's like a never-ending cycle.

What used to be war and death seemed to mean nothing.

Those civilizations that were slaughtered by him, did they all become like this in the end?
Thanos has never thought about this question before, and has never paid attention to or asked about it, as if he completely forgot their existence.

It's just wishful thinking that they should live a happy and beautiful life as in their own theory, and live happily forever.

Maybe they would still gnash their teeth when they mentioned themselves, wishing that he died immediately.

But what does it matter?

Thanos doesn't care, he feels like a saint, doing what he thinks is right without asking for rewards or understanding, and doesn't care what others think.

But is this really the right thing to do?
What happened to the planets and civilizations that he once slaughtered?
Thanos used the space gem to open a space-time barrier and observe a civilization that he had slaughtered decades ago.

"The people are living and multiplying, the society is functioning as usual, and everything looks the same as it was before the massacre."

It's no different...

This discovery made it difficult for Thanos to accept, which directly negated all his achievements over thousands of years.

He, can't change anything...

"Then, in your world, how did you do it in the end?"

Thanos' voice was hoarse, and he looked at Zhang Yu as if he was looking at the last straw.

"The development of civilization and technology, the great geographical discovery, the exchange of materials in the world..."

Zhang Yu didn't hide anything, and said directly:
"With the advancement of civilization and the entry into the industrial and information age, more resources are developed and utilized. A place that could only feed 100 people before can now feed 1000 or 1 people. Environmental problems will naturally be solved."

"Of course I know that even so, the earth's environment still has a limit, but what about that?"

"Depopulation through civil war?"

"of course not!"

"The only solution is to continue to develop, enter the space age, develop various resources in the universe, and carry out interstellar colonization. Only in this way can we completely solve the environmental problem."

After Zhang Yu finished speaking, he looked up into Thanos' eyes and said seriously:
"When the development of civilization encounters difficulties, brutal massacres cannot solve any problems. Even because of the death of a large number of people, many technologies will be lost."

"The rise and development of civilization will be interrupted, not to mention countless deaths in vain, and the lack of key technologies will also make a civilization go back many years in certain fields."

"If it is serious, it will even go a completely different route."

"And the civilizations that rise above the ruins and ruins tend to be more authoritarian and conservative, which is also not conducive to the advancement of civilization."

(End of this chapter)