Why does the number of wars/conflicts continue to increase since we began the Agriculture period? The trends I see, are worsening not improving as we had hoped and expected.

Give Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature a read. The last 100 years (even with WWI an so WWII) have been getting better and better based in statistical evidence. Most don't realize this because they watch too much censationalized news TV.

Upvote becuase I agree smaller and decebtralied is the key to the future. Sustainability, distributed solar power generation, 3D printing, etc... The future is bright. :)