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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> > I'm talking about science having led us to overcrowding, global warming,
> > exploitation of any natural ressource we can get our hands on, radioactive
> > waste we have no idea how to deal with the next few million years, and the
> > like.
>
> Versus the alternative of famine, plague, and so on. You think there was no
> overcrowding in the dark ages? No using up all the available natural
> resources leading to widespread famine? Granted, we had less radioactive
> waste, but that's not saying much.
.... and, in absolute numbers, there were less people suffering.
Which one does count - the number of people living a happy life? the number of
people leading a miserable one? or maybe it's irrelevant?
Science cannot tell us that.
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