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I think the idea here is that keeping most humans alive, relatively healthy and out of poverty is good end goal and globalization helped with that. We do have

I think the idea here is that keeping most humans alive, relatively healthy and out of poverty is good end goal and globalization helped with that. We do have unquantifiable long-term risks but I would wager you don't want to live in the days where you did from a small wound because we don't have the technology or scale to provide antibiotics.

ironmagma 6y ago
That is a false dichotomy. There was a sweet spot we had in between the invention of the antibiotic in the 1920s and now when societies were more localized. I find it quite doubtful, for example, that disposing of tons of forever chemicals (PFAS, etc.) in the ocean is at all compatible with keeping humans alive, even most humans. These are the unfortunate incentive structures we get when there is so little accountability.