world a serious problem, friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still d — Ramez Naam, Crux

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The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though…

Ramez Naam, Crux

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