Example

Justice notes that sometimes such differences, even when expressed, still lead to divisions that may seem insurmountable. “We parcel up land into properties,” Justice writes, marking our divisions from one another. In more extreme cases, we are “separated permanently by mountains or water barriers” which seem to end definitively any sense or hope of unity: “because of our success in outgrowing our original environment, we ceased to have a common place and identity.” This insurmountable division seems an unavoidable result of human evolution and prosperity, Justice claims—as the earliest groups of humans thrived in their shared landscape, “eventually, as populations grew over generations, a new band would split off.” Such splits would drive groups of humans further afield from one another, resulting in a mutual forgetting of their “common place and identity” and likely the “evolution of different languages.”