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I know it's cool to circlejerk about doom and gloom, but in general things are better than they've ever been. Life expectancy continues to increase, people are less oppressed, technology progresses, there's less war, the only problem is that in an interconnected world you can hear about all the bad stuff you were previously unaware of if that's what you choose to hear!
Life expectancy in North America is actually dropping. People in North America are losing civil rights protections. There's actually more war, not less occurring worldwide.
According to the first search result I found it has never dropped. Do you still have regular lynchings? Can women still vote? Is there imminent threat of nuclear annihilation? Just because sometimes there are steps backwards doesn't mean we're not as a whole moving forwards.
the climate would like a word
Even for the climate, we’re finally taking action and the action is speeding up every year.
We may be too little too late, but we’re moving and we’re speeding up
Literally nothing is being done about climate change. We're no closer to being rid of fossil fuels than we were 30 years ago and we are only using more and more petroleum products and coal in daily life.
The increase in fossil fuel usage has always correlated super heavily with increases in population, which makes sense because we use these fuels to sustain human life. However, it's important to note that the rate of increase in fossil fuel usage has actually slowed down relative to the rate of increase in population.
It's also wrong to suggest nothing is being done about climate change, it's not all doom and gloom. North American loggers are heavily focused on reforestation and as a result the number of trees is 130% what it was 100 years ago.
Farmers are very focused on soil health and the amount of arable land has increased which is a massive environmental win. They are also naturally inclined to make more efficient use of their fuel since they pay for it themselves: The GPS and EZ Steer technology alone reduced fuel cost for farmers and emissions immensely.
There's also been a lot of progress in nuclear energy, and we're far closer to implementing safe modular reactors than we've ever been before, which will be a massive step forward in getting out of coal energy
True, it's fucked. But we're doing more to fix it than we were ten years ago, and there are far less people pretending there's no problem.
I prefer climate issues over tuberculosis and polio.
Climate change will likely bring a host of new diseases that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years.
I'm not trying to be doom and gloom, but unaddressed climate change could bring some serious consequences.
Do you have a source for this?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-earth-warms-the-diseases-that-may-lie-within-permafrost-become-a-bigger-worry/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/climate-change-will-result-in-new-viruses-and-risk-of-new-diseases-says-study
Diseases that may lie in permafrost give reason to worry. These articles are entirely speculative and openly alarmist in nature, I wouldn't trust them to sway your opinion if I were you.
There's never been a dormant disease that's been found and revived from permafrost that we have any reason to believe could infect human, let alone any explanation of how such a disease could make it into the human population just through the thawing of permafrost alone. It's not just that I don't think we have reason to worry, I actually think we have plenty of reason not to worry.