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[hunter]

32. It's not impossible...

...good food, comfortable shelter, appropriate medicine, universal literacy, and birth control.

Ever notice how the most regressive societies reject all those, even here in the U.S.A.?

The leaders of these societies know they need more and more people living in ignorance and poverty to retain their power and there's no better way of accomplishing that than subjugating women, denying them both birth control and education.

Secondary to that, we must redefine our measures of "economic productivity." What we call "productivity" today is directly proportional to the damage we are doing to both the natural environment and the human spirit.

If we don't deal with our own human problems now then nature will deal with us later. Exponential growth always ends badly.

100,000 years from now, whether or not we humans somehow "save" ourselves, this civilization is just a layer of trash, slowly fossilizing, with new species evolving.

I'm still able to muster some optimism for our species, even though it appears Mother Nature has already pushed the "reset" button and the system is going down for system halt now. Some of our own work and some of our familiar environment may yet survive.