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The New York Times > The Ends of the World as We Know Them:

Being both a history student and a Social Democrat, there's nothing revelatory in this article for me, but it's a great précis of how, throughout history, the selfish practices of well-off nations have a habit of coming back to bite them in the ass.

"Do we have cause for hope? Many of my friends are pessimistic when they contemplate the world's growing population and human demands colliding with shrinking resources. But I draw hope from the knowledge that humanity's biggest problems today are ones entirely of our own making. Asteroids hurtling at us beyond our control don't figure high on our list of imminent dangers. To save ourselves, we don't need new technology: we just need the political will to face up to our problems of population and the environment."