Love this from Jessica Richman: "Progress is not having any problems, but having better and better ones. Making the world a better place does not mean the end of suffering. It means the move to newer kinds of suffering that are (we hope) less acute, less terrible, less heartbreaking."
If you disagree with the following, please send a short note on why: "Future considerations should dwarf the present – the same way unborn humans vastly outnumber the living, the same way the accumulative never-born of an endangered species should loom over the debate about its protection" (from Stewart Brand).