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We're not, time between start of WWII and till the Arab Oil embargo when the technical revolution ended, was quite a bit more influential. And yes sure people had an even better way to destroy biosphere then too, as well as lots of ways to make things better, and it's fair to say our grandfathers used this resource in general, in a very constructive way.

We neither got that much potential to either break or fix things, nor we make a wiser use of what we have. Yes we got Elon Musk sure, but apart from him, all that the humankind is doing is finding progressively sneakier ways to make people click on ads, which is hardly a great achievement. Everything else from art to politics is just a tool to this end.



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