Been arguing with conservative echo chambers on this very topic for last 2 days. Exhausting beyond belief
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There is a rise in mortality rates among Americans. Again, Pinker is asking Americans to feel a warm glow about decreased mortality in the developing world, while America continues its downward slide. It seems his thesis generally works best when averaging world wide.
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Have you noticed a certain unreceptive attitude toward good news lately?
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Progress, Pinker? Sure, I’ll examine that, Mr. Anthropocentric:
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We’ve driven plants and animals to mass extinction, destroyed two-thirds of the planet’s forests, created acid rain that poisons lakes, eroded the soil, dammed or drained rivers completely, and pumped our atmosphere full of carbon dioxide that is acidifying 1/
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our oceans and killing its reefs, melting the ice caps, raising sea levels, destabilizing the climate. And endangering entire peoples. We’ve jeopardized the biosphere, etc 2/
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Yes, we have solved many of the past’s issues. The issue is that we’ve created a whole new host of problems that are greater than that which we’ve overcame. Like, for example, destroying the planet to a degree in which it may result in our extinction. But progress, right? 3/
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Exactly. Despite all that we have actually progressed. Much better to be alive today than 100 years ago.
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I can't believe this was posted 16h ago and
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In my state, Maine, infant mortality and childhood poverty rates are accelerating in the wrong direction. Take your utopia bullshit and shove it.
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I agree, Western medicine is amazing. Do you see the plummeting birth rates in Western countries as a problem tho? The people who created that medicine aren't reproducing, which seems like regress.
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Now tell the third work to stop spawning like locust!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b609VU2jPk8& …
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In Enlightenment Now,
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Not fast enough. The hordes in Africa and Asia are also the biggest polluters in the worldpic.twitter.com/9AMM3vSgjK
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I think the book also showed the trajectory of world pollution. Would you consider reading Enlightenment Now?
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Too bad the whales aren't fairing so well... Human progress, while all other mammals distress...
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