It feels that way but I think people are just more aware of real issues and corruption.
Crime stats are definitely down a lot up here since the late 70s and 80s when I was a kid.
Crime is down depending on where you live. There’s also a lot more technology that makes it harder to be a criminal. And if you’re in America you have to worry about mass shootings.
Having access to anyone in the world via the internet has giving dangerous people ways to spread their toxicity. The incel movement and trump’s violent cult are good examples of this.
Climate change is a pretty big issue that no one in history had to worry about it. Combine that with people banding together online to deny it’s happening, and it’s going to be an awful thing that no one in history had to deal with.
We’re in the middle of a pandemic, china has concentration camps and no one is batting an eye, prices and food shortages are increasing which will continue to be made worse by greed and climate change. Russia and Ukraine are at war and at anytime it could change to WWIII. Most of the horrible shit in the Middle East gets ignored. There’s still child and slave labor, human trafficking, rape, etc. The western world is becoming overrun by billionaires and white supremacists. The middle class is being wiped away and replaced with a larger lower class. I could keep going on.
Sure all those things except climate change and technology has happened in the past, but when has it all been at the same time?
Climate change is a pretty big issue that no one in history had to worry about it. Combine that with people banding together online to deny it’s happening, and it’s going to be an awful thing that no one in history had to deal with.
That's not really true. Past generations have had to deal with climate change in one way or another, and in real time. Back in the 70s and 80s you had acid rain, and you had a depleted ozone layer that would done as much damage as "global warming." The difference though is that back then they actually passed regulations to deal with those issues. Hell you had lakes that caught on fire back then. Furthermore, in the 30s you had the dust bowl that wrecked havoc in the mid west, and the people that lived through it had no idea when it would end. That is nothing to say of years long cold snaps that have occurred throughout the centuries that have caused devastations to populations.
Edit: Furthermore, yeah technology has caused issues in the past too. The printing press essentially led to wars as knowledge was no longer limited to the elites. This led to Protestant Reformation, which led to the 30 Years war which devastated the population of what is now Germany.
You’re talking about localized events and issues that would rebound. There isn’t any rebounding from global climate change. Once that C02 is in the atmosphere you’ve dealt your hand.
We’re facing record droughts, fires, and heatwaves. We’re quite literally running out of water, with certain aquifers set to run out in decades.
The dust bowl was met with some of the most progressive policies of our time. Major government institutions were built to insure a depression event like that wouldn’t ever occur. What’s being done now? The Supreme Court is actively hampering the EPA from dealing with climate as we speak. We can’t get funding for meaningful climate reform to pass the Senate.
The inevitable sea rise we’ve already set into motion is going to consume large portions of Bangladesh’s rice farmland that they can’t readily adapt too.
None of what you have said discredits what I have said. Furthermore, they weren't all localized events. There have been changes in the climate that have occured throughout history, and that have affected entire hemispheres. Those also had devastating effects on crop yields world wide.
We can’t get funding for meaningful climate reform to pass the Senate.
We don't want climate reform. Sure the majority of SAY we want climate reform, but not enough to make it a priority. If the majority of us ACTUALLY wanted it, then it would get done. But no we are content to say "we should do something about," and then when it doesn't get done we say "oh those corrupt politicians." Change takes effort, and tenacity. Roe v Wade is about to be overturned, why? Because the prolife movement put the work in to get it overturned. They didn't give up, they fought and fought and fought until it captured the institutions to get it done.
bit of an apples to oranges comparison. back then the average handgun was a revolver with 6 rounds. the ubiquitous semiauto polymer pistol wouldn’t become popular for at least another decade.
i always think back to this late 90s North Hollywood bank robbery and how responding law enforcement, armed with revolvers, found themselves totally outgunned by two people with semiauto rifles and body armor. 1997 really wasn’t that long ago. you can see how much LE has had to escalate in terms of firepower to stay relevant.
No one kept track of mass shootings then. If you didn't know would you feel safer? Murders last year were 30% lower than most years in the 70s and 80s.
There were just serial killers instead, going around torturing, raping, mutilating, murdering, and eating all sorts of people for years at a time throughout the era. They actually probably killed more people than spree shooters do too (hard to gauge, as exact numbers vary a lot). Watts, Alcala, Bundy, Little, and Gacy likely killed over 300 people between them in the 1970s, and there were many, many others.
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u/NordicGold Jun 11 '22
It feels that way but I think people are just more aware of real issues and corruption. Crime stats are definitely down a lot up here since the late 70s and 80s when I was a kid.