{"id":418,"date":"2022-02-28T22:08:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanwrigley.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:51:49","slug":"humans-are-not-good-custodians-of-almost-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/humans-are-not-good-custodians-of-almost-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans are not good custodians of almost anything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My hope is that humans go on to do great things, like explore space and make the Earth a greater place than it is now&#8230; but it seems like we don&#8217;t really have a right to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear that we can cope with the basic scenario of existing on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War, the environment, and many other things don&#8217;t seem to point to a bright future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish that we were better, but perhaps, on aggregate, we&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hope is that humans go on to do great things, like explore space and make the Earth a greater place than it is now&#8230; but it seems like we don&#8217;t really have a right to that. It&#8217;s not clear that we can cope with the basic scenario of existing on Earth. War, the environment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:10013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}