PHILOSOPHY
t’s natural to feel about your place in human history that these are the twilight years. Hundreds of millennia of human activity stretch back behind us, whereas our mental image of our species’ future tends either to be hazy or, in the event of an extinction-level catastrophe, terrifyingly short. But there is another way to see things. Even if the world population were to fall by 90%, and if humans survive no longer than the average
