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Re:Improving Ourselves to Death by paulcole on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:51PM (#18387067)
> each of whom spent countless hours improving their knowledge to better humanity

Wouldn't you say that all of those improvements have partially led to the predicament we're in today? An unsustainable drain on the planet's resources and unchecked climate change?

Sure we got better at making iPhones but that meant we had to get better at strip mining, shipping things around the world on freighters, and driving to the mall, too.

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Re:Improving Ourselves to Death by RealityVoid on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:35AM (#18388647)
Only because we as a global society have decided we value iPhones and big houses over a clean and sustainable planet. If we thought otherwise, we surely could have gone in a different way. Through effort and ambition we când improve and destroy things. It does matter what you aim at, not just that you shoot.
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