@Aedes,
EmperorNero wrote:The whole green thing just seems silly to me. And global warming is nothing but a unscientific myth.
I somewhat admire the people that came up with it and now profit from it.
I wouldnt say unscientific, I think its just something we dont have the capacity to decide for either side yet. Its like the study of eating habits on health, I heard chocolate goes from hero to villain and back to hero quite oftenly.
But, to be honest, then I think about Global harming, I have this strong impression than in a hundred years or so our grandchildren will mocker us for all this "green" stuff we are doing just like we mocker our antecestors for believing jumping over fire on new year would bring luck.
Aedes wrote:Compared with where we were from 1900-1950, we're without question doing better. We still have genocides and pogroms, but we don't have Auschwitz, Kolyma, Nanking. We still have battles, but we don't have the Somme or Stalingrad.
The world is rife with problems, asymmetries, and suffering, but by many measures they are less superlative than they were in the first half of the 20th century.
We also have gotten to the point where social justice is a more commonly held value than it has ever been in history (on a global scale).
Indeed, we tend to think the world has more problems nowadays than before, but perhaps its just because we couldnt know how the whole world was going before. Social problems always existed, but at least nowadays we have peace between countries. Off course, not in the whole world, but in most part, differently from older times were countries were trying to conquer each other pretty much all the time.
