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I don't agree at all. I'm not going to refute each point. Homo Sapiens were never living as free as a field mouse. Even primates have a very socialized aspect and politics. Ocean mammals also have big brains and social structure. Including Orcas in and around the mediterranean having a fad of attacking sailboats by battering off the rudders. And yes blue whales can be unhappy. The rest of the BS about hell on earth for half the population does not align with facts.It's not specious if one believes in Nature. Humans survived over 2 million years free of industrial-political technology. Only in the last 15,000 years - a mere tick in human history- have the species been captured by the "big brain" idea of civilzation and all the burdens it has precipitated on humans. Because of this concept of civilization, we have polluted and poisoned our air, water, and food. We have made a hell on Earth for at least half the human population and nearly all of the animal population. We have devised a thousand tortures against the rest of Nature's species of plants and animals. And that is good because we wanted to have limits?
Every species has a unique way of existing, surviving and passing their genetic material forward. Is the field mouse, the giraffe, the blue whale unhappy, unfulfilled, throttled from their natural expression? Mankind was once just as free to live their life. Civilization is simply an idea being tried out. An idea to harness the masses for the benefits of the few - the one in 10 million born with massive excess of ambition. Freaks of Nature, actually. It is that idea that has bloomed to enslave Mankind.
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
Very few think the world is making progress. In this article I am looking at the data to challenge the widespread negative sentiments.
ourworldindata.org
Do you think when reptiles were the dominant form of large life they cared their lifestyle put a crimp on the little mammals around? At least people do care, and while it is easy to see how things are wrong because the information is more available, and there are real problems, in general things are better for people if not animals. If the population levels off and declines a bit as expected in 30 years or so we'll probably do more to help the animals too. Even then there are more animals that went extinct prior to humans than has done so since. Seems like a billion year trend. Life is better and trending that way. Don't be taken in by all the doomsayers. It is those people who want to use that as an excuse to take away more of your freedom than is good.