Great set of decontextualized data points that misses the forest for the trees. We have made a lot of “progress” in the material sense. From my perspective, we’re flailing in the psychological, social and spiritual realms. The generation coming of age in the midst of this “abundance” is the most anxious, depressed and addicted cohort. Democracy is receding, while globally things have become a lot less stable.
We have exceed 7 of 9 tracked planetary boundaries and, if we keep going, at some point, the biospheric substrate on which we all depend will fail.
The engineer turned journalist author might consider looking at the bigger picture.
We want reasons to be optimistic. That’s not lost on me and why I don’t want to give this a “5” - but the writer displays exactly the sort of naive optimism that tends to out compete, for our attention, the reality of our fraught situation.
Great set of decontextualized data points that misses the forest for the trees. We have made a lot of “progress” in the material sense. From my perspective, we’re flailing in the psychological, social and spiritual realms. The generation coming of age in the midst of this “abundance” is the most anxious, depressed and addicted cohort. Democracy is receding, while globally things have become a lot less stable. We have exceed 7 of 9 tracked planetary boundaries and, if we keep going, at some point, the biospheric substrate on which we all depend will fail. The engineer turned journalist author might consider looking at the bigger picture. We want reasons to be optimistic. That’s not lost on me and why I don’t want to give this a “5” - but the writer displays exactly the sort of naive optimism that tends to out compete, for our attention, the reality of our fraught situation.