onlooker wrote:Above all other things, I would say availability of sufficient food and modern medicine has allowed our population to bloom and rise so high. Any disagreements?
Ibon wrote:onlooker wrote:Above all other things, I would say availability of sufficient food and modern medicine has allowed our population to bloom and rise so high. Any disagreements?
Add sanitation.
And the energy source fossil fuels of course that has driven industrial agriculture, sanitation infrastructure and industries that discovery, manufacture and distribute medicine.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Cog wrote:So onlooker are you going to be on the death panel to decide who lives and who dies?
dohboi wrote:
We have been a reckless teenager with dads fancy car. But we are now in the ditch, and it's a very, very long, muddy walk home, indeed!
dohboi wrote:
Yes, this is the paradox or maybe even the hypocrisy of living nearly all of our lives deep inside of and enormously benefiting from the dominant narrative that we call all the shots, but then when anyone suggests there is any smidgen of responsibility that might go along with all that power, then some people suddenly throw up their hands and say, "Oh, no, it's nature that is completely in control, and I have no agency over anything."
I just find that to be a bit too convenient of a 'revelation' it many cases.
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