One of the strange consequences of reading so much history is that you start to be able to imagine what a historian would write about your own time. It's alarmingly easy to imagine a future historian writing "As China's power grew, America was paralyzed by internal dissension."
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Fighting climate change, using methods currently being advocated, seems like the number one way to increase poverty and slow economic growth
Good point, but there are ways to fight it that might increase economic growth by driving the development of new technology as e.g. the Cold War did.
