Will mankind survive? Who knows? The question I want to put is more searching: Who cares? It is clear that most of us today do not care - or at least do not care enough. How many of us would be willing to give up some minor convenience - say, the use of aerosols - in the hpoe that it might extend the life of man on earth by a hundred years? Suppose we also knew with a degree of certainty that humankind could not survive a thousand years unless we gave up our wasteful diet of meat, abandoned all pleasure driving, cut back on every use of energy that was not essential to the maintenance of a bare minimum. Would we care enough for posterity to pay the price of its survival?
I doubt it.
Published in the New York Times Magazine...1975!
To say nothing here about our concern for the spiritual health and well-being of our brothers and sisters...born and unborn.
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