The more generic answer is that it is much, much easier to wreck the habitable planet you're on than to find and settle a new one. Any long-lived civilizations out there have solved Pascal's problem of learning to sit quietly in a room alone.

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url broken, here you go www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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"the populist right and the neoliberal center that have driven “eurosclerosis” discourse, which has come to serve a very specific confirmation bias: there is no better form of market society than that of the United States" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

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Now that is its public, Perry made me who I am today. A brilliant scholar and generous teacher who created a motley band of graduate student for whom he was a surrogate academic parent. I will miss you forever.

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"If we once again adjust Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) for differences in working hours, we find that the US ranks higher than any country other than Norway.... When excluding health from AIC, then, we find the US to be relatively unremarkable..."

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