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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by aaron695 on Friday March 24, 2017 @08:16PM (#13953296)
That's a shame because the world is a hell of a lot better place than when you were a child and also has lots of cool stuff.

And it's only getting better.

I wonder why old age makes many people despondent.

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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by marricks on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:21PM (#13953938)
"Better" is entirely too vague. Sure, I can get a VR headset now which is awesome, but the middle east is even more unstable now and thousands of species have gone extinct since then.

For a lot of people the core idea that "the world is slowly improving" is so fundamental they miss seeing basic ways many things have gotten worse.

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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by TaylorAlexander on Saturday March 25, 2017 @03:37PM (#13957187)
The world is getting better and worse. Technology is better but the natural world is suffering destruction at a rate that is increasing. Animal populations have been decimated[1] and natural forests have been too.

If you care about what the planet will be like in 200 years, things haven't gotten better.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622

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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by deelowe on Saturday March 25, 2017 @02:58PM (#13957024)
That's a fair bit of dissonance for anyone who's following climate change research.
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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by bborud on Saturday March 25, 2017 @11:38AM (#13956128)
It makes people despondent because they realize that cynicism takes decades to learn.
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