If you had the choice of being born either into an impoverished life in a sustainable agricultural civilization, or into a comfortable life with internet, global transportation and healthcare close to the end of an unsustainable technological civilization, which would you choose?
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The fact that we don't doesn't mean that we are not able. We didn't manage to rectify our priorities fast enough. Well, lots of people did, but unfortunately the majority didn't. I think the crucial point is maybe that technological progress became faster than social progress.
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It seems to me that on a society scale, it takes humans a long time (generations) to adapt to new long term rewards and penalties. We have been able to adapt to countless examples of that, but the world we live in has started to change too fast.
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