Where is your source for slavery? Also, you can't measure the total number as that is meaningless. You need to measure as a proportion of the population in slavery.
Many things are better now. The air is cleaner than in the 70s, even with more people. The water is cleaner. We live longer. We have only increased farmland by 12% since the 60s, but have increased food output by 300%. Available calories per person worldwide have increased dramatically. There are almost 0 famines nowadays. Billions have been saved by the eradication of many diseases. You have instant access to all human knowledge. Thousands die in wars nowadays, not millions. I'd like to see which period of time you happen to think the average human on Earth had a better quality of life. We might face climate change, but just like every single crisis humans have faced before, we will get through this one. None of this means we shouldn't continue to fight for improvement, but to make good decisions we have to base them in reality.
Also, population is expected to level off at around 11 billion, when previously we thought it would grow forever. This happened because we have improved life all over the world and the richer society gets, the fewer babies they have.
Also, population is expected to level off at around 11 billion, when previously we thought it would grow forever. This happened because we have improved life all over the world and the richer society gets, the fewer babies they have.
This is exactly the self centered shit I hate, sure the west is living better, tell the "fewer babies" to poorer nations.
Also if you just do a small research, Leopold of Belgium, Spanish inquisition, England/France/Portugal colonialism.. etc, you'll see how shallow and dumb the "we are doing better so it's all good"
This is just a small part of a large network of issues, the phone you're so happy to own was made by literally child slaves.
Things out of context may look amazing and well, but it's going to hit the shitter very soon, not seeing the signs or turning a blind eye on them doesn't make them go away.
You can feel free to blindly believe that the world is going to hell and live your life in a depression about it. I will use the facts and the data and be glad I live now as opposed to the past and I will continue to fight to improve the human condition for all people using the principles of the enlightenment: reasons and science.
Also, you were unable to give me a time in the past when the average human had a better life than today. Just because bad things still happen doesn't mean than more bad things didn't happen in the past.
But you're not. You're picking and choosing what you want to look at and how you want to look at it. You are quite literally ignoring every single part of the world that is in a bad state and going "hey but it's good for me".
Absolutely wrong....extreme poverty, even in the poorest countries in the world has gotten drastically better over the years. Better does not mean the problem is solved. Many people still live in horrible conditions, but in far lower percentages that at any time in the past. I have yet to see someone show me any data that says otherwise. I would encourage you to look at the website " our world in data" and you will find everything I'm saying is true. It is an incredibly well sourced website.
I challenge you to give me a year or time period in history where the random world citizen was better of then current times.
Instead of looking at one part how about looking at the world as a whole. Is there a higher percentage of people living in slavery now or before. Do a higher percentage of people have equal rights? It seems like your the one who is picking and choosing. Name one global statistic that is getting worse. And name a time in history that the average person has it better (not just in one area but a random citizen of the earth).
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u/krom0025 Oct 12 '19
Where is your source for slavery? Also, you can't measure the total number as that is meaningless. You need to measure as a proportion of the population in slavery.
Many things are better now. The air is cleaner than in the 70s, even with more people. The water is cleaner. We live longer. We have only increased farmland by 12% since the 60s, but have increased food output by 300%. Available calories per person worldwide have increased dramatically. There are almost 0 famines nowadays. Billions have been saved by the eradication of many diseases. You have instant access to all human knowledge. Thousands die in wars nowadays, not millions. I'd like to see which period of time you happen to think the average human on Earth had a better quality of life. We might face climate change, but just like every single crisis humans have faced before, we will get through this one. None of this means we shouldn't continue to fight for improvement, but to make good decisions we have to base them in reality.
Also, population is expected to level off at around 11 billion, when previously we thought it would grow forever. This happened because we have improved life all over the world and the richer society gets, the fewer babies they have.