Humanities Contradiction
How is it that humanity is simultaneously making great progress and plunging toward destruction. We have made amazing strides in areas like extreme hunger, farming efficiency, literacy, civil rights, communications, and medicine. As the same time, we are knowingly destroying ecosystems, causing the extinction of thousands of species, building more deadly weapons, adding to global climate change, poisoning our bodies with chemicals, and seeing an increase in authoritarian rulers. We also just allow some terrible things to continue to exist (income inequality, racial and gender discrimination, maintaining power in the hands of few), while also wonderful and noble features of humanity remain strong (charity, friendship, empathy, family). Is it a race? Can both these aspects continue, balancing each other. For example, we can make food that lasts longer (feeding more people and lower costs), but we have to add chemicals (which make us fat or gives us cancer) so science develops med