Where we are headed as a species

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Looking at people are well... sheep the whole fact is that is true you have people who just aren't scientifically literate.
That is a bad thing i mean it's a terribly dangerous thing. For one Pam Bondi she is signing a bill to oppose  air pollution 
get this we have the scientific facts of well pollution is bad global warming is real. And  we have people who aren't well 
informed enough to speak out against her and  people signing that bill. The worse part of it is the fact people can be 
persuade into thinking global warming isn't a issue i mean this is 2015 and it's winter it hasn't snowed in Buffalo New York 
that is a sign among many and even looking at this past hurricane season. We have smart people giving people facts and  
its like damn its falling on deaf ears  but people only want to listen when things really get bad. It's that same mentality of 
let the future generations handle it because what if the future generations don't want to. This is my key point of it all 
we will nearly destroy this planet for money then look at fixing the planet as profit gain. I don't think we are going to be around
very long with this sheepish mentality of believe in what x person says even though he doesn't  have facts. Damn.... really depressing
but you know what maybe we will be smart enough not to let it go that far.

"Some things are bad." Yep, I totally, totally agree with you...

Adopting a defeatist mindset because "some things are bad" doesn't seem a rational thought process to me, though. Where's the perspective? Where's the sense of proportion? People are still dumb, but they are spectacularly more intelligent than ever before. The literacy rate alone proves that.

Yes, there are looming sustainability issues. There always have been. This doesn't mean they aren't dire, but we shouldn't throw up our hands and make fatalistic threads about "where we are headed as a species" because of it.

There are millions of people out there doing positive things in the world. There are spectacularly good changes that have been happening in all realms of measurement which can't be ignored in a balanced view. I think the real question is why someone would take such an unbalanced view.

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This species will die out eventually. Every species does.

Except that we are the only knowledge-creating species.. We are the only species that figures out how to survive in completely inhospitable environments.