[dane-pgp]

Climate change is definitely a cause for concern, but the world is doing more and more to solve it (albeit it not quickly enough to prevent large numbers of unnecessary fatalities throughout this century).

As for violence, it's worth noting that "The USA has lower violent crime rates than the average of industrialized countries."[0] That's not to say it doesn't have severe problems that absolutely should be fixed with better policies, and it doesn't disprove your belief that things are devolving, but it maybe shows that things can be a lot worse and still be okay.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying complex civilization has a good chance of getting through this century, but I think the problems are more subtle than current news stories suggest, so we need to think carefully about what actions we can take as individuals that will have the best chance of improving things.

[0] https://safeatlast.co/blog/gun-violence-statistics/

[ohiovr]

13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, *nor any heat*.

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  18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which **destroy the earth.**

[dane-pgp]

It may seem strange to some that the wrath is targeted at those who "destroy the earth", when Revelation is full of visions of angels doing fairly destructive things to the earth, but I think the traditional understanding is that it was the actions (or inactions) of "the nations" that deserved that destruction, so they were ultimately responsible in the sense of being culpable.

It's an interesting point, though, that only in the last 100 years have humans really been able to conceive of "destroying the earth" as something that we are directly capable of.