re: "Why the 2020 Election Makes It Hard to Be Optimistic About the Future" (The New York Times, November 16, 2020)
We can't even solve our own personal obesity and related health issues because of how mindless evolution, blind mother nature that is, made us. What chance of solving more complex problems involving human persons actually pulling together?
The outlook is perhaps even grimmer than Mr. Krugman outlines.
On a cheerier note, the Earth and life do not need us. If we pass into the same oblivion where the dinosaurs now stomp, another species will get a chance to be top dog, not necessarily our canine creations. The cockroaches have waited a long time to scurry out for a turn in the sun.
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