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by dijit 1865 days ago
To take an alternative stance:

People are living longer and better than at any point in history. Nature has its own dangers, we’ve just traded some issues for others.

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That's a false dichotomy. We can certainly do better.
I really dislike that term, we can always do better up to some unknown “best”.

But if we’re comparing nature vs now then “what we can do” doesn’t factor because it’s far too unknown and handwavy.