Reply #20: Nope, didn't say that either

[Maple]

Nobody gave a rat's patoot about the 'environment' until Rachel Carson's book. Then it became all the thing, and people began to clean it up. That was an improvement, not a death sentence.

And yes, we are doing better than ever before in history. Cave people died at 20. Romans didn't do much better. Victorian England was a horror of pollution and short lives.

The planet is not in 'bad shape'. What arrogance to think we can 'take out' an entire planet with the few people we have...and yes, we are few in comparison to the land mass involved.

Life is never 'rosy' and carefree, but you don't have to go to the opposite extreme, and insist the sky is falling either.

I read all this same gloom and doom in the sixties. And, had it been true, by now I should be standing on my one square foot of alloted land, barely able to wheeze. However, that didn't happen either.

It is one thing to work for a better world, to see problems and try to fix them...it is another thing to be overwhelmed by similar things to what previous generations have had to face, and just give up and assume the world is ending.

It's not.