Catastrophic events…a Nature’s standard solution to evolution?

I just saw a report in the news about the rising and prosperity of an african country so well known by its past holocaust: Rwanda.

In the mid 90’s, Rwanda and its neighbor Burundi were shaken by terrible events of genocide: hundreds of thousand people from Tutsi and Hutu tribes were killed in years of a cruel civil war. It has been probably the most criminal war event since WWII, but as it happened in the core of a forgotten continent, Africa, looked like nobody cared at all.

Now Rwanda has a rising economy, a full new generation of young people working on build a new country with hopes in the future, and no more fighting, by the moment. One of the most promising countries in eastern Africa.

That brings a terrible word to my mind: Reset. Do some societies need some kind of “reset” in order to evolve?. What happens when a system gets into the bounds of a demographic, social, ecological collapse? Is a massive extinction, a catastrophic event the standard solution that nature provides in order to restablish a sustainable equilibrium that allows the whole thing to keep evolving?

Are we humans prepared to avoid these events and do something before it’s too late and most of us are likely to be killed by some war or catastrophe?

Life is constant rebirth, although all the struggle has to face. But rebirth implies a previous kill. Let’s think about that…