I think we are sort of at an awkward point in our history wherein the negative parts of this contemporary society seems to weigh heavier than the negatives of society past. This is, of course, because the negatives of this society do, in fact, weigh heavier than the problems of the past. For instance, the problem of not being able to travel further than 50 miles from home without dying seems like only a minor inconvenience to most people compared to the detrimental effects of destroying the atmosphere because of our fossil fuels. I guess the problem is that it affects a larger number of people, of course, as we've talked about before, the problems of the past are no worse to each individual, it's simply less bad for the entire species.
I agree with you regarding the fact that regressing is not better than progressing. I think that, our problems now could be addressed and that a change in mindset will allow us to prevent or respond more quickly to problems that come up in the future. Regarding transportation in the past, transportation was far less advanced; people were not able to travel very far. In our society people can travel around the world with relative ease, this comes at the expense of possibly destroying the atmosphere. I think that we can progress, however, to finding alternate means to power vehicles in a manner that does not destroy that atmosphere. I think many of our problems have solutions that we need to embrace.
I think this is comparable to driving next to an 18 wheeler. Driving next to one seems really bad and you want to get away from it. Currently we are next to it, and we know that being behind it isn't very safe either. The only thing to do, then, is to drive forward as fast as we can (still at risk) until we are ahead of the truck.
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