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pharke | 3 years ago

We currently live in a world that has been “unrecognizably transformed” by the industrial revolution and yet here we are.

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SamBam|3 years ago

And the result of the industrial revolution has been a reduction of about 85% of all wild animals, and threatened calamity of the rest in the next few decades. Hardly can be summarized as "yet here we are."

pharke|3 years ago

Given a choice between pre-industrial life and our current lifestyle, the choice is obvious.