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We live in a very advanced world today, and as a result we enjoy a quality of life that those of past generations would have only dreamed of.
As the general quality of life continues to improve, it raises the question as to when its increase will stop and perhaps reverse. Many seemingly impossible problems face the future, like climate change, a dwindling water supply and a national debt. With problems like these, it is unlikely in my opinion that the future generations will continue to enjoy all the benefits and ever increasing quality of life that we have so far enjoyed.
This isn't to say that we and our children will regress to an undesirable quality of life, but rather the way we live will need to change drastically, far more so than it has changed in the past century.
This is not a pessimistic view on the future and certainly not indicative of the near future, but for the first time in history we may have to settle with what we have instead of wanting more and more and ever more.
Joshua Parrott
South Jordan