Comments on the last part of this series have raised some interesting points. Several have alleged, far too unduly pessimistically, that things for some people haven’t changed a lot since the 1870s. Well, for people in the Third World that may be partially true ( only partially true, for reasons that I shall cite in a future post. ) But for us who live in the West, that just ain’t nowhere near the truth. However degraded we may see our environment to be, or to have become, none of us live in... Sign in to see full entry.