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Re:On “A Canticle for Leibowitz” by gumby on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:09PM (#32271152)
The US is only 5% of the population. On a global scale all of those factors are improving.

Just as the Gibson quote went: "The future is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed"

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Re:On “A Canticle for Leibowitz” by tuatoru on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:03AM (#32275052)
No, they're not all improving.

Topsoil exhaustion and poisoning is global. Freshwater scarcity is much worse in China and the Subcontinent than in the USA. Antibiotic resistance is world-wide. Destruction of rainforests: likewise. Female literacy is declining in developing countries, despite more time spent in "school".

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Re:On “A Canticle for Leibowitz” by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:34PM (#32271357)
That suggests Rest of World will soon experience the decline the US, UK and some other Western countries are experiencing.
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Re:On “A Canticle for Leibowitz” by gumby on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:36PM (#32271370)
Or that the USA will eventually catch up with the more advanced nations. Actually even if everybody regressed to the mean it would be a step up for the States.
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