RE: Steemit Engagement Challenge S11 - W1: Perhaps if man had not invented fire, what would this earth have looked like?
I also think that early humans used and preserved fire for a very long time that came about by chance - lightning strikes, forest fires.... They carried small "eternal" flames with them on their migrations. There were guardians of the fire on whose care sometimes depended the survival of a whole clan... And at some point, another coincidence will have shown persons how to create such a fire himself. Somehow I think the method with the flints is older, because I can also imagine this procedure by chance. The wood friction requires specific experiments, or...?
And yes, fire created the basis of human life as we see it today. We can cook foods that would not be digestible raw. Of course, there are downsides, such as overpopulation and the harmful use of fire - we exaggerate almost everything... But I wouldn't want to miss this achievement. It would only be a treacherous illusion to assume that we can control or dominate a force of nature 100% (whether it is fire or water...).
A bad achievement, though, I wish Nature used natural powers more sensibly and humans knew how and to what extent to use them. But as we all know, humans are greedier than we think, so if they grab something, they use it until it starts boomerang onto themselves.
The same is happening with fire, as we are sitting on a volcano, and you never know when it explodes. Cheers.
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