[kingdomcome50]

Totally agree. The world is the best it has ever been by nearly any metric.

My father had to _literally_ practice hiding under his desk at school with a Geiger counter in preparation for nuclear war. He was then _drafted_ into Vietnam... I don't think I have it so bad.

[hutzlibu]

"The world is the best it has ever been by nearly any metric."

How about fertility of the soil, area of land covered by desert vs forest, number of insects and in general diversity of wildlife, amount of fossil fuels burned every minute, amount of opioids intake, anti depression drugs consumption, number of days you have to wait to see a special doctor, inflation rate, ...

So good to hear, that you are currently doing well. And we surely could be worse off and many things certainly did improve. But give it some more geopolitical escalation and you getting drafted as well in the neae future remains a very real possibility.

[ben_w]

> amount of opioids intake

*embarrassed British cough regarding the Opium Wars*

That said, your list is half global, half national. We're not all suffering from the mistakes of the USA in over-prescribing things.

[hutzlibu]

"That said, your list is half global, half national."

Yes .. like the post I was replying to.

[bawolff]

I mean, if we look at history, climate change (even much smaller than what we are facing) tends to trigger wars. Suddenly land that was valuable isn't and vice versa. Even in the most optomistic scenario it will probably destabalize the world order and result in conflicts.

Like e.g. weather events are thought to be one of the likely factors in the late bronze age collapse. There's evidence that unusual climate events coincided with the fall of rome. Like obviously a lot of other factors were at play, climate just pushed something brittle to its breaking point.

[swader999]

And yet there's a proxy, some would even call it a direct war between Russia and NATO that has some non zero probability of going nuclear.