Oodain wrote:
unfortunately doing this on a global scale requires more coorperation and goodwill than anything we have seen so far, probably more than we ever will see.
There was a time when we waged wars that tended to kill off somewhat frightening proportions of our populace. War, before ideas like Geneva Convention, was brutal and cruel. Firebombing a city full of innocent civilians was strategy, not a war crime. Few people realize that the firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than Little Boy and Fat Man combined. In that time, people scoffed at the idea that we would ever get where we are now.
I think we have made progress. There is simply a long way to go.