Why accept consensus as reality?

[Kendel]

And @Klax , this round and round and unvetted pet book references felt familiar.

Creation Groans | World of Wounds

Mark - that is tragic, and unnecessary. As is your “guilt over how bad things have gone…” The facts are that nearly everything is so much better than it was 50yrs ago it is almost impossible to imagine it. You really do need to read Matt Ridley’s book The Rational Optimist or other books like Ronald Bailey’s The End of Doom or Michael Schellenberger’s Apocalypse Never. Also check out the Factfulness website. On almost every metric that matters to human and planet earth’s well being we are …