Some suggest human ingenuity and technology will come up with a solution for all of our problems.
Who will technology save? The rich nations? But if Bangladesh goes underwater in the next 30 years, as it probably will as a result of the sea-level rise, you’re going to have 65 million people on the run, most of them poor, most of them poorly educated. Hell, we have a hard time dealing with half a million refugees in the world today. What then? How then? Can we sustain 7 billion people on the planet? Almost certainly not. Could there be an epidemic that could wipe out half the world’s population? Certainly yes. When will it happen? Probably soon. There are all these different questions you can raise, but we can’t give up.
-- Richard Leakey, interviewed in Willamette Week
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