[pathseeker]

>Between the mass pollution tainting our world, impending global warming and increased civil unrest, I figure the odds that my animal reaches 70 are not very high.

You are living in approximately the safest time ever. The Internet has just made civil unrest visible when it would just be page 3 in a newspaper before that you wouldn't care about.

People living in the 80s in the US were in a war-zone by today's standard. Lead was in the paint and the gas not long before that.

[Aeolun]

> You are living in approximately the safest time ever.

Aside from the steadily growing number of natural disasters happening every year.

[sangnoir]

Are the numbers growing in absolute terms, or is the reported disasters that are growing? Before satellites, 24-hour news, the internet and social-media + camera phones, a lot of natural disasters went unreported. Now you will find clips of a disaster with two dozen different viewpoints, before, during and after, all in high resolution[1]. So what decades ago would have been a short, nondescript page-3 article about tragedy at an exotic place halfway around the world, is now gripping TV (with very high ratings) in the present day.

1. Checkout Forensic Architecture's reconstructed timeline of the Beirut explosion. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...

[Aeolun]

Yeah, I’d seen that one. I wouldn’t consider the Beirut explosion a natural disaster though ;)

I think that, due to global warming, the actual number is increasing.

[sangnoir]

Fair point - but that was a neat example of the kind of coverage modern-day disaster get. The Puebla earthquake also had countless videos, but none were curated in one package like the Beirut explosion.