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"I would say that learning this material ... has lifted some of the
existential weight from me. Things aren't as bad as they are
trumpeted to be. In fact, they're quite a bit better, and they're
getting better, and so we're doing a better job than we thought.
There's more to us than we thought. We're adopting our
responsibilities as stewards of the planet rapidly. We are moving
towards improving everyone's life." --Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond
Order: 12 More Rules for Life Think the world is getting worse?
You're wrong: the world is, for the most part, is getting better.
But 58 percent of people in 17 countries that were surveyed in 2016
thought the world is either getting worse or staying the same
rather than getting better. Americans were even more glum: 65
percent thought the world is getting worse and only 6 percent
thought it was getting better. The uncontroversial data on major
global trends in this book will persuade you that this dark view of
the prospects for humanity and the natural world is, in large part,
badly mistaken.World population will peak at 8 to 9 billion before
the end of this century as the global fertility rate continues its
fall from 6 children per woman in 1960 to the current rate of 2.4.
The global absolute poverty rate has fallen from 42 percent in 1981
to 8.6 percent today. Satellite data show that forest area has been
expanding since 1982. Natural resources are becoming ever cheaper
and more abundant. Since 1900, the average life expectancy has more
than doubled, reaching more than 72 years. Of course, major
concerns such as climate change, marine plastic pollution, and
declining wildlife populations are still with us, but many of these
problems are already in the process of being ameliorated as a
result of the favorable economic, social, and technological trends
that are documented in this book.You can't fix what is wrong in the
world if you don't know what's actually happening. Ten Global
Trends Every Smart Person Should Know will provide busy people with
quick-to-read, easily understandable, and entertaining access to
surprising facts that they need to know about how the world is
really faring.
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the
key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective
of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public
intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our
idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville's
prescience on how a "cognitive elite" might be the aristocracy to
be most feared in our time; robotization and the possibility of
being ruled by morally challenged robots; organ markets; the
degradation of liberal education by obsessive techno-enthusiasm;
biotechnology and biological determinism; the birth dearth and the
inevitable erosion of our entitlements; the possibility that our
techno-domination is basically an unfolding of the Lockean logic of
our foundation; and the future of the free exercise of religion in
an aggressively libertarian time. All in all, this book should
provoke widespread discussion about the relationship between
scientific/technological progress and the one true moral/spiritual
progress that takes place over the course of every particular human
life.
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the
key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective
of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public
intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our
idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville's
prescience on how a "cognitive elite" might be the aristocracy to
be most feared in our time; robotization and the possibility of
being ruled by morally challenged robots; organ markets; the
degradation of liberal education by obsessive techno-enthusiasm;
biotechnology and biological determinism; the birth dearth and the
inevitable erosion of our entitlements; the possibility that our
techno-domination is basically an unfolding of the Lockean logic of
our foundation; and the future of the free exercise of religion in
an aggressively libertarian time. All in all, this book should
provoke widespread discussion about the relationship between
scientific/technological progress and the one true moral/spiritual
progress that takes place over the course of every particular human
life.
Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same . . . but
death comes only once . . . and choices about food come many times
each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a
collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of
genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal
questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a
broad range of subjects, including the meaning of food, moral
analyses of vegetarianism and starvation, the safety and
environmental risks of genetically modified food, issues of global
food politics and the food industry, and the relationships among
food, evolution, and human history. Will genetically modified food
feed the poor or destroy the environment? Is it a threat to our
health? Is the assumed healthfulness of organic food a myth or a
reality? The answers to these and other questions are engagingly
pursued in this substantive collection, the first of its kind to
address the broad range of philosophical, sociological, political,
scientific, and technological issues surrounding the ethics of
food.
Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same . . . but
death comes only once . . . and choices about food come many times
each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a
collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of
genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal
questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a
broad range of subjects, including the meaning of food, moral
analyses of vegetarianism and starvation, the safety and
environmental risks of genetically modified food, issues of global
food politics and the food industry, and the relationships among
food, evolution, and human history. Will genetically modified food
feed the poor or destroy the environment? Is it a threat to our
health? Is the assumed healthfulness of organic food a myth or a
reality? The answers to these and other questions are engagingly
pursued in this substantive collection, the first of its kind to
address the broad range of philosophical, sociological, political,
scientific, and technological issues surrounding the ethics of
food.
In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers -- and even the questions themselves -- contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution -- and the political causes behind them.
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