[korantu]

The point is general for all living things, though:

> air pollution, climate change, deforestation, food, biodiversity loss, ocean plastics, and overfishing. On most of these fronts, things are worse today than they were in the distant past. But on all of them, progress has been made recently, and we’re on a better trajectory than most people assume—even though that rarely makes the end-of-the-world headlines dominating the news.

[RGamma]

I'd really like to believe that and that it's not just a change in the fourth derivative. And at least half the global population hasn't even started properly consuming yet...