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Million2026 t1_iu9f1mg wrote

Reply to comment by WillBigly in Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century. by filosoful

No. Africa will just keep being exploited.

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Jahobes t1_iu9mhxx wrote

History says no region just keeps being exploited. We go through cycles.

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Dantheking94 t1_iua7y8c wrote

And the trend is leaning to The Arctic Regions being exploited next.

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Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iucnsal wrote

We don't go through cycles.

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Jahobes t1_iudwo5d wrote

We definitely do. Italy once ruled the entire Mediterranean and parts of Britain.

Back then the Celtics tribes of Britain were barely cavemen. A thousand years later and the roles have reversed.

This has basically happened to China a dozen times.

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Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iue4w3j wrote

The Roman empire and britan and no where near similar enough to be some cycle. For a cycle to 3xist there has to be some driving mechanism which there js not.

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KmartQuality t1_iuagbam wrote

Africa is big and cycles break

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Jahobes t1_iub2kkj wrote

This is human nature tho. It's like saying we can create a government that rules for eternity.

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