LOTS OF POINTS YOUR OPINION TYPE QUESTION 5. If you were in charge of re-establishing an ecosystem after a major catastrophic event, what would be the steps that you would take to ensure that your are successful?

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.