The Importance of Innovation in Modernity

"I get a lot of pushback from people who want to argue that there is something peculiar about Western Christian civilization," he says. "You simply cannot sustain in my view the argument that the things that people point to as reasons for Western civilizations being the first place to sustain an episode of intensive growth are peculiar to it." He adds: 'We have to hope and trust that we can find the innovations that we need to overcome difficulties'