(God, Empson wrote with an agreeable flourish, "is the wickedest thing yet invented by the black heart of man"). What remains is the kind of atheism that renounces God while having a low estimate of humanity.
In addition, the goals of humanities and medical faculties differ within medical humanities programs.
And do our expectations (of humanities scholarship) matter?
The product of P, A, and T is Impact (I), a rough estimate of how much humanity is degrading the ecosystem services it depends upon.
The World Bank estimates that more than half of humanity now has access to digital currency, which has helped billions of people lift themselves out of poverty.
Medical technology has given these weak, wailing bits of humanity -- an estimated 200,000 a year -- their chance at life.
If the world suffers the higher levels of estimated global warming possibilities, the survival of humanity itself is in question and civilization is unlikely to survive anyway.
By some estimates, deforestation accounts for more than 10percentt of humanity's carbon dioxide emissions each year.
One third of humanity is fed through an estimated 500m smallholder farms and, in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of food consumption depends on these crucial producers.
An estimated 855 million people (more than one sixth of humanity) will be functionally illiterate at the end of this century.
The UN estimates that 828 million people, which is about 12% of humanity, live in slums in the developing world.
