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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
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civilization
consequences
environment
foresight
insight
isolation
realization
rich
wealthy
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Jared Diamond |
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The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.
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british
foresight
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?
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foresight
fortune-telling
inevitable
margaret-atwood
prophecy
suffer
the-future
the-robber-bride
unchangeable
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Margaret Atwood |