One objection to this vision focuses on my chosen location for this imagined near-future neo-America, given the possibility that climate change will render Texas or Arizona unfit for human habitation.
It’s a real concern, and depending on your expectations for rising temperatures and water shortages you might bet on a Great Lakes renaissance instead.
But you also shouldn’t necessarily bet against the adaptability of human beings who seem, to my own New England confusion, to really like to live in scorching heat.
The deeper objection is a spiritual one, offered by Rod Dreher, who reliably outstrips me in pessimism and comes through again here.
“Yes,” he responds, “it is better to live in a country and in a culture that is doing better, materially and otherwise, than all others.
Persons:
Rod Dreher, ”, it’s, Lewis, Dreher, —
Organizations:
New, Arizona
Locations:
New America, Texas, Arizona, England, America, East Asia