While I generally agree with this article, and with you, that the world is better than ever, the fact remains that the world is getting worse in one, extremely important way: environmentally. All our progress will count for nothing if we can't sustain our own existence.
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Hastings, incidentally, is among the finest writers of English alive today.
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Duh, the article is behind a paywall for me
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Sums up our mission in one tweet, join the conversation
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What about systemic flaws in our society (economic externalities; Failure to share natural wealth)? Should we be addressing these, so harmful practices are no longer profitable & dire poverty/econ precarity are eliminated? Do U think we live in a sustainable & just society?pic.twitter.com/Ct1zpyS1fM
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Be interesting to have a theory as to why people often have this hankering for the fantasy of a golden age
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I think the Golden Age for many is simply their (misremembered) youth. Ah well nostalgia ain’t what it used to be
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I miss the Cold War.
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Archiving for my grandkids. They will be whiney about the heat and humidity, lost coastlines, the charismatic megafauna, the Holocene, basically.
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Stop flying on the Lolita express you ghoul
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