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htuttle

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2. It's a glass half-full/half-empty sort of thing

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 11:41 PM

Apr 2018

On the one hand, "tool monkeys", to borrow a term, are pretty cool, and we've figured out a lot of stuff. There doesn't seem to have been anything like us before on this planet.

On the other hand, us hominids aren't half of what we think we are. We're 95% the same as any beast you'd find in the wilderness, and often only barely under control through great effort. "What a piece of work is man!" indeed....

All in all, I think we'll be lucky if 10% of us make it through the Anthropocene bottleneck we see looming before us.

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