[ChuckMcM]

What I love about this article is that it demonstrates once again that some discoveries are actually pretty awesome. If I am not careful the unrelenting stories of future calamity can weigh me down, and yet I know intellectually that generally equal part bad and good things happen over time.

This is an excellent example of a "good" thing which wasn't even considered in papers and articles written about the coming antibiotic apocalypse. And it is critically important for engineers and scientists to not give into the "all is lost" mentality that the popular press uses to sell clicks and pageviews.

[aerovistae]

I would say the good things have gradually begun outweighing the bad in the last two centuries. The world has made obvious visible progress on every continent in countless metrics. Long way to go, but nonetheless.

[ccvannorman]

To further illustrate this reality, I point thee to Hans Rosling.

[coldtea]

>and yet I know intellectually that generally equal part bad and good things happen over time.

There's actually nothing statistically, logically or otherwise necessary about this.

Humanity could be wiped out in 10 years for all we know.