[填空题]There are a great many books, web sites, and training (36) today more or less dedicated to the idea that being bored is a major sin, for which the only (37) is to find ways to be busy and productive every waking moment. People who follow this (38) are constantly on-the-go—and feelings of boredom quickly smothered with yet more activities.
At work, at home, at play, each (39) must be filled with things to ward off the slightest possibility of being bored. As a society, we’re over-stimulated to the point of mania, like hyper-excited children in those few moments at a party before it all goes wrong and everyone starts crying. I suspect the rise in ADHD isn’t only (40) to eating strange chemicals in the diet; we’re training ourselves to require continual distraction, reducing our attention-span to less than a few seconds before we’re bored again.
It used to be only teenagers who (41) . "I’m so bored!" Now almost

[填空题]There are a great many books, web sites, and training (36) today more or less dedicated to the idea that being bored is a major sin, for which the only (37) is to find ways to be busy and productive every waking moment. People who follow this (38) are constantly on-the-go—and feelings of boredom quickly smothered with yet more activities.
At work, at home, at play, each (39) must be filled with things to ward off the slightest possibility of being bored. As a society, we’re over-stimulated to the point of mania, like hyper-excited children in those few moments at a party before it all goes wrong and everyone starts crying. I suspect the rise in ADHD isn’t only (40) to eating strange chemicals in the diet; we’re training ourselves to require continual distraction, reducing our attention-span to less than a few seconds before we’re bored again.
It used to be only teenagers who (41) . "I’m so bored!" Now almost

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A great many articles and books discussing environmental and resource problems begin with the proposition that there is an environmental and resource crisis. If this means that the situation of humanity is worse now than in the past, then the idea of a crisis-and all that follows from it-is dead wrong. In almost every respect important to humanity, the trends have been improving, not deteriorating.
Our world now supports 5.6 billion people. In the nineteenth century, the earth could sustain only 1 billion. And 10,000 years ago, only 1 million people could keep themselves alive. People are now living more healthily than ever before.
One would expect lovers of humanity-people who hate war and worry about famine in Africa-to jump with joy at this extraordinary triumph of the human mind and human organization over the raw forces of nature. 41．______
It is amazing but true that a resource shortage resulting from population or income growth usually leaves us bet