Let's compare war, diseases, and natural disasters in 2010 to war, diseases, and natural disasters in 1310, 1410, 1510 and hell, even the 1940's. In today's world we have a general connectedness via technology and media. Today's world may have better weaponry but we also have a much more civilized way of sorting out conflicts. There are still battles and fighting, but definitely not at the scale of 500 or 1,000 years ago. There is little chance that North America and Europe would ever go into all out war with each other. Yes, North Korea and the Middle East are still problems. But the good definitely outweighs the bad in today's world in terms of war.
Did everyone in the US blacked out in between 1939 and 1945?
Second World War alone:
Allies:Military dead:
Over 16,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 45,000,000
Total dead:
Over 61,000,000 (1937-45)
Unadjusted U.S. Cost
$288 Billion as of 1945
Axis:Military dead:
Over 8,000,000
Civilian dead:
Over 4,000,000
Total dead:
Over 12,000,000 (1937-45)
Present Day U.S. Cost
$3.48 Trillion
Nearly 50MILLION innocent civilians killed isn't "a much more civilized way of sorting out conflicts".
And this was one war. Ok, it was the biggest, but what about the slaughter of innocent people in Iraq that's going on in a daily basis for years now? Is that civilized? Hell no!
"You could do with putting down those religious books and picking up a history book or 10."
Is this your punchline or just a sad remark on your behalf?
Natural disasters are happening more and more due to increased negative human activity in the environment. Some theories say that overpopulation of megacities alone could be the cause of some earthquakes. Due to the extreme pressure applied in a short area of earth crust.
As for diseases, there is increased medical care and treatment for most of them. But that treatment only reaches a fraction of the world's population. Most of people in the world is seeing diseases increasing and becoming more deadly while their medical services struggle to help patients with flu or diarrhea.
The world is getting worse by the second. You are showing a very narrow and selfish way of thinking. When you're talking about the World, you must take into account that for you to live better than ever before theres much more people living in misery.
Africa for example has twice the population of the US and EIGHTEEN times LESS money.
In the US alone, the 1% most wealthy people have as much money as the lower 90% of the population combined. Does that sound good to you? And this study was made like 15 years ago, it's getting worse every year.
Want more? How about rising suicide rates? The economical crisis? The increasing pollution? The increasing criminality rates?
And you think moral values are subjective? How bout the increasing number of subjective babies born from teenage girls every year?
In less that a century mankind has made more damage to the planet, killed more people and overlooked more corruption than in previous 6000 years.
And you're telling me the world is better than ever?
This might be the most depressing post I've made here, but it's the way our World is. Having good things doesn't mean the bad ones go away. And the fact that the media just wipes them out of our society's awareness just makes all this "advanced civilization" just look more and more hypocrite.
Mind you I'm not overlooking the good things that have come out over the years. I'm just pointing out the nasties that people often forget, but that are the reality of most of the population.
