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thenewgreen · 4299 days ago · link · · parent · post: Is the world fundamentally better off because of science and technology

I think the "world" is a broad term. If the question was relegated to "me", then I think it is a more obvious "yes". The "world" could mean our ecology, ecosystem and all of earth in general. The answer may not be so easy for me given this.

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user-inactivated · 4299 days ago · link ·

Oh, huh. Earth isn't better off, I guess. Didn't really think about that interpretation.

+discuss+discuss

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khaaan · 4298 days ago · link ·

I gues world means people and planet means earth / ecosystem although for some reason we dont se ourselvs as fundamentaly involved with our parent Rock

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thenewgreen · 4299 days ago · link ·

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. As George Carlin so eloquently put it "The planet is fine, people are fucked"