Humanity's Challenge: Emotions, Institutions, and Technology

Edward Osborne Wilson's quote highlights the disparity between our emotional responses, institutions, and advanced technology. The real problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.

Nate Soares wrote an article about the inherent flaw in our 'care-o-meter'. Our brains are not equipped to scale our emotional responses to the magnitude of global problems. Billions of people live in poverty, and hundreds of millions struggle to meet basic needs or die from preventable diseases. The author discusses the concept of 'triaging' in the context of limited resources and global problems.