[jrobn]

Death and calamity is going to be the theme of the next 100 years and beyond. Climate change, mass displacement, cheap & effective propaganda, ignorance, resource contention, soil degradation, nuclear proliferation.

We've only had nuclear weapons for 70 years. We used them to blow each other up on day 1. The odds are not in our favor that nuclear warfare will be contained.

[robjan]

Death and calamity has been the theme of the whole of history. We're still generally in a much better situation than 100 years ago, even better than 200 and so on.

[jrobn]

What is your metric? We have weapons that can end our entire human species. Never before in the history of our entire planet was this even been a possibility. Its like living with a loaded gun to your head. Not to mention the impending climate related crisis domino effect we are going to face in the next 50 years. I'm sure having nuclear weapons will make that go smoothly.

[bobsmooth]

>What is your metric?

Poverty and disease, for one.

[jrobn]

Yes for some. But I still would say you are missing the forest for the trees.

[robjan]

Not really. There is inequality in the world but pretty much universally we have a better standard of living than 100 years ago. Suggested reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nat...