Here’s the reality whether it’s radiation, carbon emission’s, Teflon, or GMO’s.
Progress and elimination of human suffering is and always has been a balancing act.
Native Americans survived the harsh environment using large scale burns to contour the landscape and aid in fall animal harvest.
Stone Age man didn’t help to hunt the megafauna of NA to extinction with fire hardened spears and Clovis points alone. They stampeded and killed the herds of larger mammals to survive long cold winters.
DDT is still used in parts of the world today because the environmental risk has been determined secondary to human suffering.
Sometimes we as a species will get it wrong sometimes right.
Living in balance with nature means voluntarily living with higher infant and child mortality, shorter often times more painful lives. A more capricious and unpredictable existence. To claim we have always or will always get it right OR wrong is impossible.
Be honest it’s mostly just a process of stumbling into the future.
We learn or we don’t but just like war. It is ultimately 99% of the time it’s never apocalyptic.
Remember the dark ages really weren’t that dark. The foundations of the renaissance were all laid in those mean and dark days of the Black Death.
We struggle with retirement and financing it today but the average life span in 1938 was 63.5 SS retirement was 65.
Today’s it’s 79.5. See the problem involved here? It’s not a purposed failure of social or government policy. It’s an unintended result from changes in nutrition, medical and redefinition of old age.
Here’s a question to ponder, when did old age become an extended vacation period.
