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Frank Merton wrote:

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Frank Merton wrote:

JoeB wrote:It's definitely true that the world is becoming 'better' for most people right now. However this happens at a massive expense of the environment. It's only a matter of time before mother nature catches up with us, I hope we have our shit together before then.

It appears to me, except for the scary global warming, that the environment too is getting better. I know for sure that both the air quality and the water quality of our canals in Ho Chi Minh City are noticeably better.

It's interesting that this is all happening at a time when wealth is becoming more and more concentrated into fewer and fewer hands.

You can't really extrapolate from one specific example in your home town to "the environment" at large.

Yes I can -- I just did. It is that way over most of the developed and developing world. China has an air pollution problem and Brazil a deforestation problem, but the situation, for example, in the States is vastly improved; I can remember when the Cuyahoga river caught fire.