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A Short History of Progress (The CBC Massey Lectures), by Ronald Wright

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The Australian biologist Tim Flannery has called human beings the “future-eaters.” Each extermination is a death of possibility.24
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This is similar to the idea in A Good Ancestor, and in a bunch of other writings that we're future colonizers. Making often detrimental decisions for those beyond our lifetimes.
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A Short History of Progress (The CBC Massey Lectures)
A Short History of Progress (The CBC Massey Lectures)
by Ronald Wright
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