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"Every one of your systems is a utopian system. Democracy would be heaven--if people would just be better than people have ever been. Of course, Soviet Communism was supposed to have been heaven too--if people had just been better than people have ever been. Your justice system would work perfectly if people would just be better than people have ever been. And of course your schools would work perfectly under the same conditions." My Ishmael
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UNIT 24 The Food Race and Beyond
Quinn says that people will still be living here in one hundred years--if we start living a new way, soon--"otherwise, not." At our current rate of growth, our population is doubling every forty years or so. Although some maintain that this pattern will soon end, this is by no means guaranteed. Assuming the trend continues, what will be the human population by the year 2080?
Quinn asserts, in effect, that if we continue to grow at this rate, our species will make this planet uninhabitable for us during the next century. Even assuming he's wrong about this, how would you like living in a world with four times as many people in it?
How credible do you find the author's speculative projections about the future?
Quinn describes a future in which a widening gulf opens between two human spheres--one ruled by pharaohs still engaged in pyramid-building and the other a world of open tribes engaged in activities that "may or may not be recognizably civilized.'" Which sphere would you rather inhabit?
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