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Given that our species has existed for only a few hundred thousand years, and that our probable fate is self-extinction within the next century or two, it's amusing to worry about problems that won't manifest for several billion years. Amusing, but also absurd, given the immediate problems we've created, and continue to create, for ourselves. As we can't even stop ourselves over-fishing, over-hunting, over-polluting etc. it's beyond implausible to imagine any capacity for the kind of sustained effort this article imagines. Plus the probability of unintended consequences is so large as to indicate far greater risk than any potential for far-off gain.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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