Green Mars

The UN never recovered from 2061, and is now widely regarded as an artefact of World War Two, just as the League of Nations was an artefact of World War One. So we’ve lost our best arbitrator of international disputes, and meanwhile conflicts have been ongoing, and some are serious.

But childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long.

Max Planck once said that a new paradigm takes over not when it convinces its opponents, but when its opponents eventually die.”
“And now they aren’t dying,” Art said.