Humanity vs. Sanity

Facts you probably already know by now: I am in Germany. I am loving it. I am trying my absolute best to learn German. It's still not working as much as I'd like it to. I don't have a knack for languages. As a matter of fact, I hate learning languages and blame my parents daily for not having been raised multi-lingual (although I still love them). 
I recently pondered the reason for so many diverse languages throughout the world. I mean, wouldn't the world work much more efficiently with only one main language? Here's what I found: 

Genesis 11
The Tower of Babel
 1 At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. 2 As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there 3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) 4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.” 5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building. 6 “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them! 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.” 8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world. (NLT)


This has softened my heart towards this whole learn-a-new-language thing.  I'm not supposed to be a natural at foreign languages because God never intended for people to communicate with each other easily. Thanks to Adam and Eve, people are sinful, and therefore strive to gain complete control of this world and its workings. One perk of the 21st century is the ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with people in all corners of the globe. (One off-topic thought: why say "corners" of the globe? The world's a sphere, the infinite-sided polygon. There are no corners!) Anyway, communication is an interstate to unity, which is exactly what God is concerned about in verse 6.  We live in an age where anything is possible; people can live longer, people can own more, people are actually attempting to get along and not remain scattered all over the earth. But is this okay for the world and for the future God has in store for this planet? I recently read this article on NPR: 7 Billion and Counting.
If you don't feel like reading it (and I don't blame you if you're still on break), the basic idea is: The lifestyles and resources used by the 7 billion people on this earth are taking a major toll not only on the planet, but also on the optimism of innovation in the future. Will God punish us again for trying to take over His world? The last line of the article states: Innovation has helped humans squirm out of projected crises in the past, and it remains to be seen, Harris says, whether we can keep doing that in the future.
So what do you think? Should we sacrifice charity and humanity for a cleaner, safer, more static planet? What will happen if there's no longer a need for charity? If you're religious, do you think that our increase in knowledge and power will be punished? Whether you're religious or not, everyone has an opinion on this topic. Anyone can leave comments, just keep them clean and to the point!