What Causes Change?

Change is caused, in my humble opinion, when one way of being, acting, or living becomes either obsolete or is not fulfilling the required needs of a person or group. In social terms, you could liken this to the Confederate States of America. A short while after its conception, it no longer fulfilled the basic needs of its people, such as a national currency or a postal service. Because of this, the people changed it and ended up with the current system that we have now. In scientific terms, change is caused by necessity. Evolution is a good example of this. Say, for instance, that animal "a" always casually strolled up to animal "b" to kill it for a meal, but one day, animal "b" thought, "Hey, you know what, I'm getting sick of this!" and decided to run away. Now animal "a"'s method of obtaining food is obsolete, and it either changes or risks starving to death. After reading Mr. Voight's comments on my essay, I realized that another example of change by necessity would be global warming. There is a need to use more energy now, partly because there is simply more people, and partly because we have more gizmos. Due to this need, the earth has begun to warm. Now, to tie it all together, there is a need for us to change our energy habits so we don't decimate our climate/home. All in all, change is the action something takes as the result of something new being added to its enviroment.