Sentences with phrase «general squalor»

Mankind has been blessed with huge supplies of coal and oil, which made it possible to lift ourselves up from the cold, dark, 70 % child mortality rates and general squalor that typified the human condition 400 years ago.

A good picture of the general squalor, cynicism, and despair in Soviet life was provided by a documentary film Tak Zhit Nel» zya (roughly «We can't go on living like this»), which was released into movie theaters in the summer of 1990.

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As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»