"Learning"

Do we focus on what matters?
To truly learn?
Or do we think we are learning?
What is it truly to gain knowledge? Are we gaining a new perspective?
Lately the answer has been to have no answers.
To learn is to endlessly seek and never find. We may find something that works to the best of our knowledge...
But in so doing, how is it clear that we are not creating more problems?
Usually we do.
Drilling the earth for oil to fuel our machines. We can create, travel, move, explore...
But how much drilling can the very planet we live on sustain? At some point it has to crack.
Frankly, a crack in a giant sphere made out of pressure and heat sounds terrifying.
It sounds like a bomb.
Volcanoes anyone? Yes? No? Giant molten clouds of choking ash, boulders, and various debris are not enough to dissuade?
Alright. Fair enough. It is not our problem.
Yet.
But what happens when it is? Will we learn then? Or will we think we are learning?
Or will we simply be dead?
Mankind is adaptable. So adaptable that it is a problem. Once our environment poses little danger because we have eliminated it all, wolves, bears, sickness...what is left?
The new problems we create.
Tear down a forest that has dangerous, natural predators and kill them to eliminate the danger. Sure. Sounds good.
The soil erodes due to lack of dirt-holding roots.
The non-threatening herbivores reproduce at alarming rates and starve due to overpopulation.
Species go extinct.
And we build nuclear power plants on the site of a previous forest.
This is a great idea. Nuclear power is safe and efficient. Until it's not.
Chernobyl. Fukushima. 
Those were accidents. We have "learned" better ways to create danger intentionally. The very thing we have used for energy we have also, horrifyingly, used specifically to kill each other.
Before Chernobyl, before Fukushima.
Hiroshima. 1945.
We dropped a nuclear bomb on an entire population of people without understanding the full implications of what it would actually do. The damage from that bomb is still being recovered today in 2014.
So, what did we "learn" from these incidents and tragedies?
Absolutely nothing.
Even after the horrors of Hiroshima we continue experiments with nuclear power. Studying nuclear matters is not the issue. Putting them in to practice without fully understanding what we are doing is the problem.
However, we continue to make more power plants. We continue to make bigger nuclear bombs, just in case.
Just in case what?
Someone else somewhere else has a bigger nuke? What the hell is the point? Making another nuke just further increases the danger by astronomical amounts. The force of the bomb that hit Hiroshima was but a trifling firecracker compared to the horrors we have today. 
We have learned and adapted since we have been on earth.
Now that natural dangers have lessened, we are creating new ones.
New dangers that no amount of learning can overcome.
If we keep making nukes
If we keep using the very lifeblood of the planet as fuel
If we keep "learning"...
Everyone and everything will die.
And no amount of knowledge can prevent death.
So please, if you are reading this, consider what you learn and why.
Why do we learn?
The more I learn the less I know. The fact that we put experiments into real-world practice before knowing the consequences frightens me.
Learn for the sake of learning. By all means, expand, explore, seek until you can seek no more...
I beg of you, let the pursuit of knowledge and the abstract thought, the possibility, the thrill be enough.
But do not create Hiroshima 2.0.
That is called a Supernova.
And it will be our end.