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by Evidlo 525 days ago
I assume you're aware of the following and are being willfully ignorant:

- landed on the Moon

- industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible

- eliminated smallpox, polio

- invented penicillin which has saved hundreds of millions

These are just the ones off the top of my head

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> industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible

Which destroyed our soils and allowed us to grow so out of proportion that in 200 years of industrial revolution we're slowly coming to the conclusion that we might have destroyed our home planet...

All the examples you used are from about a human lifespan before our time. Not really anything people alive now have any connection or conscious appreciation of.