theshatterstone54@feddit.uk to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoPeople often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems?message-squaremessage-square157fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squarePeople often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems?theshatterstone54@feddit.uk to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square157fedilink
minus-squarewildncrazyguy138@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI’m more a visual person, so let me show you some graphs: Famine rates are down: https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Famine-death-rate-since-1860s-revised_850.png We can do so much more with our computing resources - Note, logarithmic scale: https://www.singularity.com/images/charts/MicroprocessorClockSpeed.jpg Poverty is down: https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2545610/Screen_Shot_2014-12-12_at_10.34.38_AM.0.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100 Billions of people live in a democracy, before 1850 almost none did: https://bigthink.com/the-present/democratic-rights/
I’m more a visual person, so let me show you some graphs: Famine rates are down: https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Famine-death-rate-since-1860s-revised_850.png
We can do so much more with our computing resources - Note, logarithmic scale: https://www.singularity.com/images/charts/MicroprocessorClockSpeed.jpg
Poverty is down: https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2545610/Screen_Shot_2014-12-12_at_10.34.38_AM.0.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100
Billions of people live in a democracy, before 1850 almost none did: https://bigthink.com/the-present/democratic-rights/