@@adcaptandumvulgus4252 Deceiving people wasn't exactly in my job description, nor is my pay anything to brag about. I give you credit for style though.
@@AgentOfDoubt Well, nor is it in many but it will still make a sound if it falls like a duck. Enjoy that mashup. As an autodidact applied anthropologist, that was suspiciously like a humble brag. Not quite crossing the line, so I won't press the point but...it was an odd endorsement/declaration. Like, "as a doctor or as a _ _ _ " figure of authoritative expertise, stating that qualifier before your make your comment seem suspect(like you wanted to gain credence by the authority of your field of expertise ). I think that few that get "paid" have little to brag about, striving to make someone else profit for a pittance. To finish,... optimism isn't desirable for everyone, pessimism can keep you sharp, alert,...alive. I believe, to suffering can build more character faster than most anything and it appears that many need to suffer these days. 2$ Nihilism trumps all. Optimism can get someone through a tough spot or a nice glass head-viewing display, to impress those you left behind after a blast came. Nice civil exchange...maybe you are a therapist, call me D Thomas still, i guess. *references upon request
@@splitfries69 The fact that I watch videos like this would show any smart person that I am not "tuning out". I just choose not to immerse myself in the sewer to the point that I become cynical and demoralized: like you, perhaps?
@@mattwest99 really? Is there anything I can refer to as proof, if I inform others this? update*(guess this works as such)ty for pointing it out. David Koch, R.I.P. - Reason.com reason.com/2019/08/23/rip-david-koch Aug 23, 2019 · (Koch was for 36 years a trustee of the Reason Foundation, which publishes Reason magazine.) Often incorrectly described as a conservative or a Republican, David Koch …
@@castello544 Demographically China is on a disaster course because of past population control measures and a shrinking modern birth rate. It will be much worse than Japan's collapse in the late 80s.
Whan AOC said the planet will end in 12 years I laughed so hard some coffee came out my nose. How she got elected is beyond me. Hey AOC the planet has been here for 4.5 billion years it's not going anywhere in the next 12.
She bigly smart, know stuff about stuff for good stuff, she nice lady with bigum smartty brain box, i vote her good she good, now i smart vote smarty screamer in. very loud very smart....
@@royriley6282 The free market has delivered medical and technological innovation and prosperity that has lifted billions out of poverty. The government has consistently ruined lives. The laws of economics aren't as black and white as the laws of physics, but they're not gray.
@@watchdealer11 the free market has also polluted the ocean the air and landmass beyond repair. It has also brainwashed people beyond repair, forever hooked on buying shit they dont need.
it's exactly because things are going so well that certain people are working SO hard to find new problems! _"No food, one problem. Lots of food, many problems."_
Things GRADUALLY get better. Things SUDDENLY get worse. People notice sudden changes more easily than gradual changes, so we focus on the things getting worse. A good example is the COVID 19 pandemic. It happened suddenly. However, healthcare in general has gradually gotten better and better over the years. So everyone is focused on the sudden event--the pandemic instead of the gradual event--improved healthcare.
I really do like nuclear power, and blame the soviets primarily for turning the world off to the idea through their shoddy safety standards, but an interesting concept is a CO2 capturing natural gas plant: netpower.com/the-cycle/
Nuculer is Way to Dangerous, Solar is the way. It's been estimated that if we took an area the size of Ohio and covered it with Solar Panels it would produce enough energy for the whole United States.! I just think we might have a problem talking the Ohioans into it.! 😂
There is one problem in the way for nuclear power and its due to economics, biogas is safer to invest in and you get your money back earlier. Over the long run you would earn more from nuclear power but that is in around 10-15 years time, the problem is the publics perception of nuclear power. How safe it is and so forth, and politicians will obvioulsy ignore truth for more votes. There is one awesome trend in all of this, is that the newere generations who grow up with the internet finds out how safe it is, so they dont worry. If we wanted more nuclear power we would need a bipartisan bill saying "we will not impose new taxes, regulations, licensing or red tap on nuclear power for the next 25 years" So its worth investing in again. But i dont see that happening sadly.
Naturally I've no way of confirming any of this on my own, but if there's ever been any information I've been tempted to just take on faith it's this entire video.
Great perspective! But you aren't going to change my feelings with all of these facts. I say we burn it all down still, you know, in the name of progress.
@@adcaptandumvulgus4252 If a forest is completely burned down, as far leftists wish to completely burn down what we have now, the forest takes far too long to rebuild. If the forest receives no fire whatsoever and continues to grow and old things rot, as racists would wish or even turn back the clock, eventually a fire will come and devastate because of the rotten fuel. If small fires are used and turned for the good of the forest, as trials face society and individuals in turn, the forest can come out stronger and healthier. Humans are not trees however, we must choose to push ourselves forward and help others instead of sitting down and taking the punches of the world while whining and not learning.
Cant spell "progressive" without "burning businesses down and attacking people that don't believe your narrative!" Oh I mean "progress". Well as a progressive, same thing.
"I'd say the "ethical arc", morality is too subjective for those broad sweeping assumptions ~An autodidact procrastinating critical thinker, Indolence aspirant. ~{pedantics aside}~
@@-WiseGuy- That man's "ridiculous words" and "delusions" ensured his name and legacy would live on forever as opposed to your lame-ass comment, which will be forgotten like yesterday's shit-smeared toilet paper.
@@rickysanders6487 Mmm...might want to check your definition of 'Forever'. In the USA we have had many great leaders and persons...they don't tend to last 3 generations in memory. By 2050 MLK will be the subject of a movie about how he was the vampire-slaying, red banner waving, slayer of all the slave masters in 1960s America.
If you like this video, you might also want to read the book: ''Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress'' by Steven Pinker. It discusses lots of human progress so far. A great read! And filled with lots of positive charts for a change :)
Disagree, dwelling on negative things is a survival function...I won't ignore selfpreservation instincts. Just don't panic, simple. Cultivate your fear people but temper it with logic and reason as a base. It can keep you sharp, avoid danger, maybe let you stay alive due to your vigilance, just saying. 2cents
@@wes326 Massive use of petrochemical fertilizers, GMOs, and toxic pesticides does not equal a gain in productivity, when all the side effects are accounted for.
@@DegreesOfThree A lot more positives than negatives. Always room for even more improvement. My father did not have electricity as a child. My kids have access to all the information in the world. My mother in law's brother died from polio at 12. Infant mortality is way down. If you look for negatives you see negatives. If you look for positives., you see a lot more positives. Everything is better except for obesity. I'll give you that one. People are obese because work is too easy and food is cheap, both due to increased productivity.
i live in Canada, and favour socialistic and keynsian economic policies over liberal and conservative policies and i vote on the left. and this is the general view i hold: that the world is improving drastically in many criteria and that we should learn about the wins in order to continue to replicate the circumstances that led to them.
It is so easy to forget how far Humans have come in the total history. It great that someone has taken the time to remind us of positive events. Positive begets positive, Negative is well we know
Steven Pinker wrote a whole book about this stuff not so long ago (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now), but you don't hear much about it because it doesn't fit the media's narrative. Long ago, I worked in a newspaper editing room: believe me, "good news is not news."
It honestly gets tiring to constantly hear people talk like the world is worse than ever. I mean a few generations ago in the US, you could probably get away with lynching a minority. Go back some centuries before that, and watching people get eaten by wild animals in an arena was considered normal entertainment. The world has absolutely gotten better over time.
"I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime. Yet for every criminal, there are ten thousand honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime." -Robert A. Heinlein
Being from Africa i understand why westerners are freaking out. You people have advanced economically more than us that you have a lot of free time. In Africa one worries about what to eat and what to wear mostly . But in the west you consider food and cloth nothing even the internet is just a normal part of your lives. You don’t have enough problems to keep you occupied so what do you do look for problems that don’t exist. I always wonder how grateful you guys would be if you traveled to less privileged countries.
It's tricky for most people to see how free market economy improves our life, since they don't see the forest for trees. People think that factories pollute the environment to maximize their profit, but that is against the interests of e.g. real estate and park companies. In fact, when people get rich, they want cleaner environment, and the free market encourages entrepreneurs to offer that at good price.
I believe it simple give and take, what are we willing to give up? Fair market equilibrium might be needed before the true underlying problems can even begin to be earnestly addressed, yes? (but not in this dysfunctional..technocracy, corporatocracy, plutocracy...maybe a new term needs to be used. Well, it's a bit of them all, sure i missed some too.
One of the major claims made in this video is that global extreme poverty is falling every year. This was true for a long time up until this year -- the economic downturn due to covid19 is projected to push about 100 million back into extreme poverty. From the World Bank: www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/projected-poverty-impacts-of-COVID-19
Perhaps, but that's just a projection. Every projection about covid so far has been overblown. Even if it does, I believe the structures that have been built will enable a rapid recovery. (Like we are seeing in the USA) But thanks for the negative feedback.
@Craig Carmichael if we would get rid of covid restrictions, and went back to normal life the world would be much better. Once the vaccine comes out, and everyone gets it. There doesn’t seem to be any use for keeping restrictions
What's bringing us this high surge of domestic terrorism ? 60 years of Affirmative Action is the root of the problem. Self pity and imagining everyone else is the villian is getting out of control.
"The world sucks; we are living in hard times." Hey remember when millions of jews were rounded into camps and tortured to death, remember when the world was afraid that nuclear war could break out that very hour, remember when almost the entire human population was starving save for a few inbred tyrants. The world we live in today is paradise.
Cherry picking data is pretty easy. Fact of the matter, financial systems around the world are increasingly unstable and unsustainable. Wildlife is disappearing at an astounding rate. Inequality is quickly becoming the worst its ever been. Major climate change acceleration seems imminent. Military budgets are increasing around the globe. And we have an egotistical, reality TV star who has a hard time reading at the steering wheel.
*Total* number of people living in poverty has gone down, while the Total population of the world has more than doubled. That's without mentioning how many people in poverty have better lives than the wealthy of old. Stop being so misinformed that you assume that's the default and you're average. You're significantly below average and hiding from it to shield your ego.
@@SymmetricalDocking The number of people living in ABSOLUTE POVERTY has decreased. According to the world bank, absolute poverty is defined as "surviving on an inflation adjusted equivalent of $1.89 per day." Whatever improvement from $1.89 per day is. I'm sure it isn't a salary job paying in minimum wage. In the 'developed world' even a lot of people are protesting for a living wage where they can can live 'comfortably'. The world is a solution of good shit and bad shit happening. I like to think of it as parallel lines of different length. Either good is more in length or bad is more in length than good. Seeing the mentions of good shit in this video doesn't not thwart the bad being generated from other sources.
@@DarkMatterThaFirst Your definition of comfortably may differ from others. In the 'developed world,' perhaps they should be spending their money on what is necessary rather than spending money on things they want. Baby formula over drugs. Paying rent over putting a new sound system in the car. Picking up the necessities from the grocery store instead of picking up the latest XBox game. Yes, those are extreme examples, but I think it gets the point across.
Telling people everything is fine because the market/progress will solve their problems is how you end up with no problems being solved. Markets and progress are created by individuals who work together to solve problems, they can’t be relied on by individuals because they are made up of individuals.
Not really correct. Imperial Japan didn't take into account the fact America was willing to test the nuclear bomb on two cities full of mostly civilians. If that wound up being irrelevant, then there needs to be more strict bounds on the definition of the word.
@@bradleykurtz2605 Good point. Does a nuclear war or someone else with an iron will await us or is there perhaps another way to look at this? I don't know
@@josephschissel8853 I do believe chances of future nuclear exchanges are unlikely. The only case I can think that would result in this course of events would be some country attempting an old school conquest down to the capitol in a nuclear equipped nation. I think the state will conflict over the years, but I think they're doing plenty of damage to themselves.
It’s important to spread bad news, but it’s also important to spread good news. It allows us to see that what we’re doing to address that issue is working and that we should keep doing it.
Interesting to see current world GDP compared with the early C19th. For most countries there were no reliable GDP figures back then. As for Climate change, this guy just basically shrugs and says 1.5C up - so what? It ignores the fact that most estimates now put the likely rises much higher ,and modern extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and totally unpredictable.
There used to be fireflies every fourth of july as a kid. Last summer, I saw one, all year. I live in the same house and I'm only 25. we used to get snow every Christmas, now we don't get any until feburary, its mostly sleet. 467 species have gone extinct in the last TEN years and that's with conservation efforts. My kids might never see a firefly or a white Christmas. Remember what they stole from you.
What the data in the first point is hiding is that even as poverty is being erased (and this depends on how you define poverty) the cost of living is constantly getting higher. Most people cannot afford to live in today's economy. They do so by using credit cards, sacrificing things like health care, and doing without.
Don't forget corporate greed. The degradation which most workers experience on the job is the sum of assorted indignities which can be denominated as “discipline.” Discipline consists of the totality of totalitarian controls at the workplace - surveillance, rotework, imposed work tempos, production quotas, punching -in and -out, etc. Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital. It is something historically original and horrible. It was beyond the capacities of such demonic dictators of yore as Nero and Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible. For all their bad intentions they just didn’t have the machinery to control their subjects as thoroughly as modern despots do. Discipline is the distinctively diabolical modern mode of control, it is an innovative intrusion which must be interdicted at the earliest opportunity. The liberals and conservatives and libertarians who lament totalitarianism are phonies and hypocrites. There is more freedom in any moderately deStalinized dictatorship than there is in the ordinary American workplace. You find the same sort of hierarchy and discipline in an office or factory as you do in a prison or monastery. In fact, as Foucault and others have shown, prisons and factories came in at about the same time, and their operators consciously borrowed from each other’s control techniques. A worker is a part time slave. The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom. With a few exceptions he can fire you for any reason, or no reason. He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors, he amasses a dossier on every employee. Talking back is called “insubordination,” just as if a worker is a naughty child, and it not only gets you fired, it disqualifies you for unemployment compensation. Without necessarily endorsing it for them either, it is noteworthy that children at home and in school receive much the same treatment, justified in their case by their supposed immaturity. What does this say about their parents and teachers who work? The demeaning system of domination I’ve described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans. For certain purposes it’s not too misleading to call our system democracy or capitalism or - better still - industrialism, but its real names are factory fascism and office oligarchy. Anybody who says these people are “free” is lying or stupid. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. People who are regimented all their lives, handed off to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beginning and the nursing home at the end, are habituated to hierarchy and psychologically enslaved.
Love the reasonable optimism, but the use of party labels to demean organizations is self-defeating. If there is something that can be improved, instead of ad-hominem show how it can be done. Better yet let's do it.
Did you guys watch the video? Check it out first! Good examples of party labeling include calling media in general conservative or liberal which may cause some people to dismiss everything said. This automatically shuts down any reasonable discourse and creates dangerous echo chambers and politial stagnation in representatives. We need to accept each other as brothers and sisters and listen openly before we can make progress or upkeep together as a unified nation and planet.
A good rule of thumb is to check which path they take in discussions. Do they focus on attacking their opponent with party key words and vague good words they can't write into direct law? Do they specifically mention exact legal plans without the need to attack or rely on outside party support due to their own strength of character?
Thank you for this video, Reason TV. I will be reading the book. The only problem I have with this interview is the attitude that environmental destruction is inevitable. (Yes, I get that climate change is only partially man made.) That's like ancient civilizations saying "we're going to war because the gods of war force us to keep doing this. Let's just develop better shields."
We should ask more people to be a farmer kind of job. And plant food that can be eaten. Since we have so many people in the world that still can help out. Money is not everything planting food is better to survive, sharing helping we need Harmony. We need food to survive is more important then earning money. But have a little money is good. Trading is good too. If you help others they will help you back. Of Kindness.
Also we still can need doctors lawyers, bank. Electronic. We just need a better System than money. If money is increasing people will increasing die because of meaningless in living life.
Think, old industrial factories that used to be a treeless industry land are now covered in trees and plant life. Nature grow faster then most think. Abandoned places that were stripped of nature 50 years ago are now covered in plants. These plants release oxygen into the air
Property rights? Property taxes and registration fees you have no property rights, to build on "YOUR " land you need a permit to travel anywhere in your property/vehicle you need what? license and registration Hello McFly!
While I agree with the premise of the book, it is obvious the world is better now than at any point in history, it is clear that they cherry-picked the data that most reinforces their thesis rather than the data that best represents the progress of the world.
Though I agree with most points the way this video breezes past climate change like it's a small bump in the road is scary. Technology *might* be an option for rich countries to mitigate *some* aspects of climate change but for much of the world this isn't an option. Sure, the Netherlands are probably well equipped to avoid further sea level rises but what about countries like Bangladesh? Are they really going to have the money for large scale projects to hold back the sea?
The oceans have been rising at a constant rate for many thousands of years. Mankind is smart enough to adapt. If your great grandparents built their home next to the sea, that was fine at that time. However if you see the ocean rising today, then simply move to higher ground. That is not hard to understand.
The woods are expanding? Where? I know that china builds its "green wall", but this cant make up for all the deforestation in the world. Plus monoculture is not very healthy for the enviorment and as fas as I know, the green wall is not very divers. So, where does the green in the world grow bigger?
It is interesting yet no surprise that they mark 1820 as the starting date for the timeline for when poverty started decreasing worldwide. A significant event occurred in the Spring of that year.
If this landed it self on trending page of youtube I think there would we be a stark shift in the psyche of MILLIONS of internet consumers. Everybody has got to get their fear-porn before they start their day in this amazing 1st world that many of us live in.
Just $1.90 a day is all it takes to keep these people alive. For less than a medium sized Starbucks mocha latte, you can save the people of this village. And, they will be extremely grateful for it.
Speaking of taking things for granted, Reason seems to be too readily excepting of climate alarmists predictions, there is no evidence that past climate models have been accurate and there is no reason to think that 2-degree warming would be bad at all. I appreciate the optimistic view that reason has but I am concerned that they are taking main-stream narratives on to seem reputable, this isn't going to be a strategy that is going to be any fruit and really just makes Reason appear as some sort of mainstream/corporate brand of libertarianism. However, I am looking forward to the next time they interview Matt Ridley or Dr. Willie Soon. Climate change is not going to cause any more problems than climate has already been causing for centuries.
Haven't watched it yet, but if you're going to go on the same old "much economic prosperity" without acknowledging the degenerating and declining social life and the depression/suicide/loneliness pandemics, you're not really looking at the whole picture.
I would argue that focusing on depression and loneliness is missing the forest for the trees. Such problems are "first world" problems. We are able to suffer from depression because we don't die at a young age from malnutrition, war, and natural disasters. Mental health can now be addressed *because* of the improvements we've made to survival.
Thank you for this. I’m hoping the future will see competition in news that is factual. The sensationalism driving most media is unhealthy for the entire world. I think there’s surely a market demand for reality and it’s not just train wrecks until the last five minutes in an hour. We need a TRULY balanced source. A news app that allows for custom settings for notifications, such as choosing which categories, stories, people, etc, would be heaven. Default notifications for major breaking stories and time windows might also help. You’re contributing to the world in a crucial way and the timing couldn’t be better. Thanks again.
It’s the economic system that allows for this to happen. If you want the news to be less biased, you need to give them an economic incentive to be more factual. But as of now, this is not the case, so sensationalism will continue.
I mean I live in the Netherlands, more rhan half our country including some of the biggest cities like Amsterdam are below sea level. If we have to retreat from the cost we won't have a country anymore..
Amsterdam is already 2 meters below sea level and still very beautiful. Why doesn't it flood now? At what level would it flood currently? Could anything be done technologically to prevent it?
The response to the problems of climate change was way too brief and I suspect edited out. It'd be more interesting to hear more about why a global average temperature increase of 1.5 C would not be too big of a problem for future technology to handle from his perspective, especially because it's frequently cited as being catastrophic from, at least, the acidification of the oceans and the increase in hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters.
There are more slaves alive today than at any point in human history before but because these modern slaves have access to refrigerators we're supposed to not only accept this, not only be happy with it, but cheer for it? Poor people have not become wealthier, there's been increasing wealth stratification, that's simply untrue. Goods are relatively cheaper to produce and buy, largely due to an expanse in slave labour, now than they were 50 years ago, that's why they can afford disposable razers and indoor plumbing. That is NOT the same as having 8 hrs to sleep a night or a guaranteed 3 meals a day which the majority do not have on account of 18+hr workdays
As a therapist, I appreciate this optimistic look at the world.
A libertarian therapist? Society needs more of you. Most therapists I know are far left
Deceiver/braggart, begone.
@@adcaptandumvulgus4252 Deceiving people wasn't exactly in my job description, nor is my pay anything to brag about.
I give you credit for style though.
@@AgentOfDoubt Well, nor is it in many but it will still make a sound if it falls like a duck. Enjoy that mashup. As an autodidact applied anthropologist, that was suspiciously like a humble brag. Not quite crossing the line, so I won't press the point but...it was an odd endorsement/declaration. Like, "as a doctor or as a _ _ _ " figure of authoritative expertise, stating that qualifier before your make your comment seem suspect(like you wanted to gain credence by the authority of your field of expertise ). I think that few that get "paid" have little to brag about, striving to make someone else profit for a pittance. To finish,... optimism isn't desirable for everyone, pessimism can keep you sharp, alert,...alive. I believe, to suffering can build more character faster than most anything and it appears that many need to suffer these days. 2$ Nihilism trumps all. Optimism can get someone through a tough spot or a nice glass head-viewing display, to impress those you left behind after a blast came. Nice civil exchange...maybe you are a therapist, call me D Thomas still, i guess. *references upon request
@Silver Chariot Are you a European?
I turn off the news and live a responsible, constructive life. I'm happy as hell.
F*** Yeah!
@Daily dose of liberty Excellent video.
Yes tuning out everything important that's happening in the world is totally going to help you in the long run ... What are you f****** five? LoL
@@splitfries69 The fact that I watch videos like this would show any smart person that I am not "tuning out". I just choose not to immerse myself in the sewer to the point that I become cynical and demoralized: like you, perhaps?
It wouldn't be wrong to try to be a leader and help others. If not, all the strength you have cannot hold against a tyrannical society.
"Tell people things aren't as bad as they seem, DURING AN ELECTION YEAR! Why would we do that?
duh, _ad captandum vulgus_
KOCH BROTHERS RUN REASON TV.
@@mattwest99 really? Is there anything I can refer to as proof, if I inform others this?
update*(guess this works as such)ty for pointing it out.
David Koch, R.I.P. - Reason.com
reason.com/2019/08/23/rip-david-koch
Aug 23, 2019 · (Koch was for 36 years a trustee of the Reason Foundation, which publishes Reason magazine.) Often incorrectly described as a conservative or a Republican, David Koch …
i live in timbuktu. what election?
@@Xr3737 trump
Government: Creates problem
Free Market: Provides Solution
Government: Hey that's mine! *TAX
**Tax, fees, regulations, special interest legislation
You forgot the part where the government takes credit for the solution.
I guess we have to thank the Chinese for getting most of their people out of poverty?
castello no, not at all.
@@castello544 Demographically China is on a disaster course because of past population control measures and a shrinking modern birth rate. It will be much worse than Japan's collapse in the late 80s.
Good to see Ronald Bailey still shining a light on what's good in the world.
meh
Bailey is still a technocratic utilitarian, not a libertarian.
@@MilwaukeeF40C Care to explain to me what that is?
@@CVilla49 He doesn't care about individual liberty if science elitists have a solution for some "greater good" shit.
@@MilwaukeeF40C Oh, so he doesn't care for an individual's rights if something has to be done for the greater good? Where'd you hear him say that?
Whan AOC said the planet will end in 12 years I laughed so hard some coffee came out my nose. How she got elected is beyond me. Hey AOC the planet has been here for 4.5 billion years it's not going anywhere in the next 12.
Remind me 144 month. Am I right?
Barring a rogue undetected, or well kept secret asteroid impact, super volcanoes, etc... were gonna be ok😬😬
Indeed. It will only be us that'll be gone😏.
She bigly smart, know stuff about stuff for good stuff, she nice lady with bigum smartty brain box, i vote her good she good, now i smart vote smarty screamer in. very loud very smart....
@@vahidmoosavian6313 imagine actually thinking this. Al Gore is that you?
Everything good in the world: free market
Everything terrible: government
Solution to the world's problems: more government 🤦♂️
Everything good in the world: nuanced thinking
Everything terrible: black&white thinking
Solution to the world's problems: more black&white thinking
Smart people should learn the basics....Like how to read the writing on the wall..
I thought you were doing an ironic impression of the lolbert "reasoning" until I read the last line
@@royriley6282 The free market has delivered medical and technological innovation and prosperity that has lifted billions out of poverty. The government has consistently ruined lives. The laws of economics aren't as black and white as the laws of physics, but they're not gray.
@@watchdealer11 the free market has also polluted the ocean the air and landmass beyond repair. It has also brainwashed people beyond repair, forever hooked on buying shit they dont need.
it's exactly because things are going so well that certain people are working SO hard to find new problems!
_"No food, one problem. Lots of food, many problems."_
People don't look hard for new problems. The problems were always there, but not having food is the biggest problem.
@@freddovich7925 well you completely missed the point, but thanks for stopping in
So..., The fact that everything’s okay gives some peopIe the motivation to create new probIems? You’re joking right? WHAT KlND MENTALLlTY lS THAT?
PeopIe can’t IiteraIIy be *that* eviI. can they!?
And how is having Iots of food create many probIems?
Thank you for being a positive voice in this sea of negativity.
We seriousIy need more ppI Iike this!
There is no sea of negativity. It depends on what you focus on. There is more positivity like this video if you look
@@Lori_g70I hope you are right. I will try looking for it
Things GRADUALLY get better.
Things SUDDENLY get worse.
People notice sudden changes more easily than gradual changes, so we focus on the things getting worse. A good example is the COVID 19 pandemic. It happened suddenly. However, healthcare in general has gradually gotten better and better over the years. So everyone is focused on the sudden event--the pandemic instead of the gradual event--improved healthcare.
Well put
Agreed
If we just use the technology we already have, nuclear power, we won't have to worry about sea level rise at all.
Except in the case of tsunamis.
I really do like nuclear power, and blame the soviets primarily for turning the world off to the idea through their shoddy safety standards, but an interesting concept is a CO2 capturing natural gas plant:
netpower.com/the-cycle/
Nuculer is Way to Dangerous, Solar is the way. It's been estimated that if we took an area the size of Ohio and covered it with Solar Panels it would produce enough energy for the whole United States.!
I just think we might have a problem talking the Ohioans into it.! 😂
John Mokres thats why "solar isn't the way"
John Mokres and its nuclear not nuculer
There is one problem in the way for nuclear power and its due to economics, biogas is safer to invest in and you get your money back earlier. Over the long run you would earn more from nuclear power but that is in around 10-15 years time, the problem is the publics perception of nuclear power. How safe it is and so forth, and politicians will obvioulsy ignore truth for more votes.
There is one awesome trend in all of this, is that the newere generations who grow up with the internet finds out how safe it is, so they dont worry. If we wanted more nuclear power we would need a bipartisan bill saying "we will not impose new taxes, regulations, licensing or red tap on nuclear power for the next 25 years" So its worth investing in again. But i dont see that happening sadly.
Naturally I've no way of confirming any of this on my own, but if there's ever been any information I've been tempted to just take on faith it's this entire video.
Great perspective! But you aren't going to change my feelings with all of these facts. I say we burn it all down still, you know, in the name of progress.
Frankly I think when they say "progress" they really mean "bored".
like a forest can need a fire to renew?
@@adcaptandumvulgus4252 If a forest is completely burned down, as far leftists wish to completely burn down what we have now, the forest takes far too long to rebuild. If the forest receives no fire whatsoever and continues to grow and old things rot, as racists would wish or even turn back the clock, eventually a fire will come and devastate because of the rotten fuel. If small fires are used and turned for the good of the forest, as trials face society and individuals in turn, the forest can come out stronger and healthier. Humans are not trees however, we must choose to push ourselves forward and help others instead of sitting down and taking the punches of the world while whining and not learning.
@@DarkestKnightshade Maybe too long for our lifetimes but not too long for the human race, I'm thinking.
Cant spell "progressive" without "burning businesses down and attacking people that don't believe your narrative!"
Oh I mean "progress". Well as a progressive, same thing.
"The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ridiculous words of a delusional man!
Doesn’t realize MLK was a Union leftist
"I'd say the "ethical arc", morality is too subjective for those broad sweeping assumptions
~An autodidact procrastinating critical thinker, Indolence aspirant. ~{pedantics aside}~
@@-WiseGuy-
That man's "ridiculous words" and "delusions" ensured his name and legacy would live on forever as opposed to your lame-ass comment, which will be forgotten like yesterday's shit-smeared toilet paper.
@@rickysanders6487 Mmm...might want to check your definition of 'Forever'. In the USA we have had many great leaders and persons...they don't tend to last 3 generations in memory. By 2050 MLK will be the subject of a movie about how he was the vampire-slaying, red banner waving, slayer of all the slave masters in 1960s America.
If you like this video, you might also want to read the book: ''Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress'' by Steven Pinker. It discusses lots of human progress so far. A great read! And filled with lots of positive charts for a change :)
Really good read!
I know exactly why...doesn't fit the MSM narrative 🙄
Bunker Biden: come on, man.
"are you taking cocaine? "
@@Dimetor7937 Damn it, you stole my thunder
Here's the deal....
BLM now means Biden's Laptop Matters.
No lie, I read the thumbnail, "the world is dying, better than ever, here is why"
We need to dwell on the positives rather than the negatives. Most live much better than the richest people did 100 years ago.
Less farms and more people living in cities is not a good trend.
@@DegreesOfThree People choose to live in cities. We need less farmers than we did in the past due to tremendous gains in productivity.
Disagree, dwelling on negative things is a survival function...I won't ignore selfpreservation instincts. Just don't panic, simple. Cultivate your fear people but temper it with logic and reason as a base. It can keep you sharp, avoid danger, maybe let you stay alive due to your vigilance, just saying. 2cents
@@wes326 Massive use of petrochemical fertilizers, GMOs, and toxic pesticides does not equal a gain in productivity, when all the side effects are accounted for.
@@DegreesOfThree A lot more positives than negatives. Always room for even more improvement. My father did not have electricity as a child. My kids have access to all the information in the world. My mother in law's brother died from polio at 12. Infant mortality is way down. If you look for negatives you see negatives. If you look for positives., you see a lot more positives. Everything is better except for obesity. I'll give you that one. People are obese because work is too easy and food is cheap, both due to increased productivity.
i live in Canada, and favour socialistic and keynsian economic policies over liberal and conservative policies and i vote on the left. and this is the general view i hold: that the world is improving drastically in many criteria and that we should learn about the wins in order to continue to replicate the circumstances that led to them.
Inflated amounts of fiat currency don't make anyone richer.
makes the ones that use it to get real wealth, richer...
It is so easy to forget how far Humans have come in the total history. It great that someone has taken the time to remind us of positive events. Positive begets positive, Negative is well we know
I don't understand why people keep saying this year is the worst year ever, pretty much any time before the 21st century was worse for humans.
They don't take into account that social media also makes it seem worse.
Steven Pinker wrote a whole book about this stuff not so long ago (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now), but you don't hear much about it because it doesn't fit the media's narrative. Long ago, I worked in a newspaper editing room: believe me, "good news is not news."
The world is getting wealthy but mental health is on the decline.
Over what time period and how are your measuring it?
It honestly gets tiring to constantly hear people talk like the world is worse than ever.
I mean a few generations ago in the US, you could probably get away with lynching a minority. Go back some centuries before that, and watching people get eaten by wild animals in an arena was considered normal entertainment. The world has absolutely gotten better over time.
That's a fact! I just laugh at people who think the world is worse than ever because they clearly have no clue what they're talking about.
"I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime. Yet for every criminal, there are ten thousand honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime." -Robert A. Heinlein
A ray of sunshine in a dark year. Thank you for this video.
Welcome to the only positive video on UA-cam
Also full of untruths in my humble opinion
Being from Africa i understand why westerners are freaking out. You people have advanced economically more than us that you have a lot of free time. In Africa one worries about what to eat and what to wear mostly . But in the west you consider food and cloth nothing even the internet is just a normal part of your lives. You don’t have enough problems to keep you occupied so what do you do look for problems that don’t exist. I always wonder how grateful you guys would be if you traveled to less privileged countries.
Reminds me of Hans Rosling's TED talks.
Thanks for the good news Steve
It's tricky for most people to see how free market economy improves our life, since they don't see the forest for trees.
People think that factories pollute the environment to maximize their profit, but that is against the interests of e.g. real estate and park companies. In fact, when people get rich, they want cleaner environment, and the free market encourages entrepreneurs to offer that at good price.
I believe it simple give and take, what are we willing to give up? Fair market equilibrium might be needed before the true underlying problems can even begin to be earnestly addressed, yes? (but not in this dysfunctional..technocracy, corporatocracy, plutocracy...maybe a new term needs to be used. Well, it's a bit of them all, sure i missed some too.
One of the major claims made in this video is that global extreme poverty is falling every year. This was true for a long time up until this year -- the economic downturn due to covid19 is projected to push about 100 million back into extreme poverty.
From the World Bank: www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/projected-poverty-impacts-of-COVID-19
Perhaps, but that's just a projection. Every projection about covid so far has been overblown. Even if it does, I believe the structures that have been built will enable a rapid recovery. (Like we are seeing in the USA)
But thanks for the negative feedback.
Great video! Needed to see this today
I'm still unemployed and Wondering if I'm gonna get this job I recently interviewed for
goodluck bro
Brian Banegas goodluck my guy
@Craig Carmichael if we would get rid of covid restrictions, and went back to normal life the world would be much better. Once the vaccine comes out, and everyone gets it. There doesn’t seem to be any use for keeping restrictions
What's bringing us this high surge of domestic terrorism ? 60 years of Affirmative Action is the root of the problem. Self pity and imagining everyone else is the villian is getting out of control.
Lack of self awareness and self responsibility is what I notice.
"The world sucks; we are living in hard times."
Hey remember when millions of jews were rounded into camps and tortured to death, remember when the world was afraid that nuclear war could break out that very hour, remember when almost the entire human population was starving save for a few inbred tyrants.
The world we live in today is paradise.
Humans are naturally more cooperative then we are destructive.
The very foundation, and concepts of society, would never have taken off otherwise.
Yes. But if people are too afraid to cooperate in order to stop people from being destructive then what?
@@GhostKingGeorge You're seeing people push back. Patience. Observe.
Makes perfect sense: cooperation extends the survival instinct into the community
"Tonight's headline, _All is well_ … ಠ_ಠ … g'night, and have a pleasant tomorrow."
I always tell people that 2020 is one of the best years in world history, they just don't want to hear me
When they are spoon fed sensationalism all day, no wonder.
But if people get more equal, then how can I feel elitist?
I wish more people would watch these videos.
Get Matt Ridley on!
I love this!!! Thank you for the good news guys!
Cherry picking data is pretty easy. Fact of the matter, financial systems around the world are increasingly unstable and unsustainable. Wildlife is disappearing at an astounding rate. Inequality is quickly becoming the worst its ever been. Major climate change acceleration seems imminent. Military budgets are increasing around the globe. And we have an egotistical, reality TV star who has a hard time reading at the steering wheel.
*Total* number of people living in poverty has gone down, while the Total population of the world has more than doubled. That's without mentioning how many people in poverty have better lives than the wealthy of old.
Stop being so misinformed that you assume that's the default and you're average. You're significantly below average and hiding from it to shield your ego.
@@SymmetricalDocking The number of people living in ABSOLUTE POVERTY has decreased. According to the world bank, absolute poverty is defined as "surviving on an inflation adjusted equivalent of $1.89 per day."
Whatever improvement from $1.89 per day is. I'm sure it isn't a salary job paying in minimum wage. In the 'developed world' even a lot of people are protesting for a living wage where they can can live 'comfortably'.
The world is a solution of good shit and bad shit happening. I like to think of it as parallel lines of different length. Either good is more in length or bad is more in length than good.
Seeing the mentions of good shit in this video doesn't not thwart the bad being generated from other sources.
@@DarkMatterThaFirst Your definition of comfortably may differ from others. In the 'developed world,' perhaps they should be spending their money on what is necessary rather than spending money on things they want. Baby formula over drugs. Paying rent over putting a new sound system in the car. Picking up the necessities from the grocery store instead of picking up the latest XBox game. Yes, those are extreme examples, but I think it gets the point across.
You tell 'em
Telling people everything is fine because the market/progress will solve their problems is how you end up with no problems being solved. Markets and progress are created by individuals who work together to solve problems, they can’t be relied on by individuals because they are made up of individuals.
Whatever the long term says in the short term we're screwed.
If people don't take something into account, the something is irrelevant. How do we fix THAT?
Not really correct. Imperial Japan didn't take into account the fact America was willing to test the nuclear bomb on two cities full of mostly civilians. If that wound up being irrelevant, then there needs to be more strict bounds on the definition of the word.
@@bradleykurtz2605 Good point. Does a nuclear war or someone else with an iron will await us or is there perhaps another way to look at this? I don't know
@@josephschissel8853
I do believe chances of future nuclear exchanges are unlikely. The only case I can think that would result in this course of events would be some country attempting an old school conquest down to the capitol in a nuclear equipped nation.
I think the state will conflict over the years, but I think they're doing plenty of damage to themselves.
Bad news is technically constructive. It brings attention to the problems, thus hastening their resolution.
It’s important to spread bad news, but it’s also important to spread good news. It allows us to see that what we’re doing to address that issue is working and that we should keep doing it.
2023 here, i don't think this vieo aged really well...
Interesting to see current world GDP compared with the early C19th. For most countries there were no reliable GDP figures back then. As for Climate change, this guy just basically shrugs and says 1.5C up - so what? It ignores the fact that most estimates now put the likely rises much higher ,and modern extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and totally unpredictable.
There used to be fireflies every fourth of july as a kid. Last summer, I saw one, all year. I live in the same house and I'm only 25. we used to get snow every Christmas, now we don't get any until feburary, its mostly sleet. 467 species have gone extinct in the last TEN years and that's with conservation efforts. My kids might never see a firefly or a white Christmas. Remember what they stole from you.
So rare to hear some good news
This guys or someone else should make a news network that shares all this good news we unfortunately dont hear about.
What the data in the first point is hiding is that even as poverty is being erased (and this depends on how you define poverty) the cost of living is constantly getting higher. Most people cannot afford to live in today's economy. They do so by using credit cards, sacrificing things like health care, and doing without.
World is doing better but people dont
What about the growing line between rich and poor
And what bad there is, is about 99.9% the fault of various governments doing things they shouldn't.
Don't forget corporate greed. The degradation which most workers experience on the job is the sum of assorted indignities which can be denominated as “discipline.” Discipline consists of the totality of totalitarian controls at the workplace - surveillance, rotework, imposed work tempos, production quotas, punching -in and -out, etc. Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital. It is something historically original and horrible. It was beyond the capacities of such demonic dictators of yore as Nero and Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible. For all their bad intentions they just didn’t have the machinery to control their subjects as thoroughly as modern despots do. Discipline is the distinctively diabolical modern mode of control, it is an innovative intrusion which must be interdicted at the earliest opportunity. The liberals and conservatives and libertarians who lament totalitarianism are phonies and hypocrites. There is more freedom in any moderately deStalinized dictatorship than there is in the ordinary American workplace. You find the same sort of hierarchy and discipline in an office or factory as you do in a prison or monastery. In fact, as Foucault and others have shown, prisons and factories came in at about the same time, and their operators consciously borrowed from each other’s control techniques. A worker is a part time slave. The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom. With a few exceptions he can fire you for any reason, or no reason. He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors, he amasses a dossier on every employee. Talking back is called “insubordination,” just as if a worker is a naughty child, and it not only gets you fired, it disqualifies you for unemployment compensation. Without necessarily endorsing it for them either, it is noteworthy that children at home and in school receive much the same treatment, justified in their case by their supposed immaturity. What does this say about their parents and teachers who work? The demeaning system of domination I’ve described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans. For certain purposes it’s not too misleading to call our system democracy or capitalism or - better still - industrialism, but its real names are factory fascism and office oligarchy. Anybody who says these people are “free” is lying or stupid. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. People who are regimented all their lives, handed off to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beginning and the nursing home at the end, are habituated to hierarchy and psychologically enslaved.
3:03 Those gate (aka MOSES project) were poorly designed and have issues with with organic overgrowth and debris filling the void when they're up.
Love the reasonable optimism, but the use of party labels to demean organizations is self-defeating. If there is something that can be improved, instead of ad-hominem show how it can be done. Better yet let's do it.
Did the video use party labels? Where?
Did you guys watch the video? Check it out first! Good examples of party labeling include calling media in general conservative or liberal which may cause some people to dismiss everything said. This automatically shuts down any reasonable discourse and creates dangerous echo chambers and politial stagnation in representatives. We need to accept each other as brothers and sisters and listen openly before we can make progress or upkeep together as a unified nation and planet.
A good rule of thumb is to check which path they take in discussions. Do they focus on attacking their opponent with party key words and vague good words they can't write into direct law? Do they specifically mention exact legal plans without the need to attack or rely on outside party support due to their own strength of character?
i get it , when people said simpler time
I want to live where these guys live!
Thank you for this video, Reason TV. I will be reading the book. The only problem I have with this interview is the attitude that environmental destruction is inevitable. (Yes, I get that climate change is only partially man made.) That's like ancient civilizations saying "we're going to war because the gods of war force us to keep doing this. Let's just develop better shields."
1:00 is this adjusted for inflation???
Interesting. Thanks.
We should ask more people to be a farmer kind of job. And plant food that can be eaten.
Since we have so many people in the world that still can help out. Money is not everything planting food is better to survive, sharing helping we need Harmony. We need food to survive is more important then earning money. But have a little money is good. Trading is good too. If you help others they will help you back. Of Kindness.
Also we still can need doctors lawyers, bank. Electronic. We just need a better System than money. If money is increasing people will increasing die because of meaningless in living life.
The video we all needed to watch.
Thank you for a positive video
Love this video.
Wow Positivity Exist?
lt is nothing but an *iIIusion.*
Think, old industrial factories that used to be a treeless industry land are now covered in trees and plant life. Nature grow faster then most think. Abandoned places that were stripped of nature 50 years ago are now covered in plants. These plants release oxygen into the air
Property rights? Property taxes and registration fees you have no property rights, to build on "YOUR " land you need a permit to travel anywhere in your property/vehicle you need what? license and registration Hello McFly!
"People will still have to move from the coast."
Well that fucking sucks
My rent is TOO DAMN HIGH
we need more positive thinking in this world
I looked into the fridge today and found that the milk carton was still half full.
That was a sign of optimism.
This is exactly why I no longer watch/read the news. All they show you is the bad stuff because good doesn't sell and doesn't work well as clickbait.
I wish I found this before I found r/collapse...haha...
Thanks!
How ironic as i was just assigned to write a paper arguing if free market capitalism is benevolent or hurtful for the poor.
While I agree with the premise of the book, it is obvious the world is better now than at any point in history, it is clear that they cherry-picked the data that most reinforces their thesis rather than the data that best represents the progress of the world.
Though I agree with most points the way this video breezes past climate change like it's a small bump in the road is scary. Technology *might* be an option for rich countries to mitigate *some* aspects of climate change but for much of the world this isn't an option. Sure, the Netherlands are probably well equipped to avoid further sea level rises but what about countries like Bangladesh? Are they really going to have the money for large scale projects to hold back the sea?
The oceans have been rising at a constant rate for many thousands of years. Mankind is smart enough to adapt. If your great grandparents built their home next to the sea, that was fine at that time. However if you see the ocean rising today, then simply move to higher ground. That is not hard to understand.
Interesting book. Does the book delve into the reasons why specifically things have gotten better?
The woods are expanding? Where? I know that china builds its "green wall", but this cant make up for all the deforestation in the world. Plus monoculture is not very healthy for the enviorment and as fas as I know, the green wall is not very divers. So, where does the green in the world grow bigger?
Did Steven Pinker already write this book?
It is interesting yet no surprise that they mark 1820 as the starting date for the timeline for when poverty started decreasing worldwide. A significant event occurred in the Spring of that year.
If this landed it self on trending page of youtube I think there would we be a stark shift in the psyche of MILLIONS of internet consumers. Everybody has got to get their fear-porn before they start their day in this amazing 1st world that many of us live in.
They are addicted, even if they hate it
Just $1.90 a day is all it takes to keep these people alive. For less than a medium sized Starbucks mocha latte, you can save the people of this village. And, they will be extremely grateful for it.
Whatever you fund, you get more of. Continuous help creates a snowball of continuous need
That democracy versus autocracy chart is interesting. If it would also compare death by violence I bet there would be a correlation
Is the book already out? I want to buy it.
(Make it easy for me to give you money!)
Thank you.
Speaking of taking things for granted, Reason seems to be too readily excepting of climate alarmists predictions, there is no evidence that past climate models have been accurate and there is no reason to think that 2-degree warming would be bad at all. I appreciate the optimistic view that reason has but I am concerned that they are taking main-stream narratives on to seem reputable, this isn't going to be a strategy that is going to be any fruit and really just makes Reason appear as some sort of mainstream/corporate brand of libertarianism. However, I am looking forward to the next time they interview Matt Ridley or Dr. Willie Soon. Climate change is not going to cause any more problems than climate has already been causing for centuries.
Haven't watched it yet, but if you're going to go on the same old "much economic prosperity" without acknowledging the degenerating and declining social life and the depression/suicide/loneliness pandemics, you're not really looking at the whole picture.
That's pretty much what it is, a lot of these impressive statistics are completely meaningless if people are not living happy lives.
You haven't watched it but you are commenting on it. Brilliant.
I would argue that focusing on depression and loneliness is missing the forest for the trees. Such problems are "first world" problems. We are able to suffer from depression because we don't die at a young age from malnutrition, war, and natural disasters. Mental health can now be addressed *because* of the improvements we've made to survival.
I really like the positivity but with an important message dude couldn't find time to take out his earbuds before filming?
Thank you for this. I’m hoping the future will see competition in news that is factual. The sensationalism driving most media is unhealthy for the entire world. I think there’s surely a market demand for reality and it’s not just train wrecks until the last five minutes in an hour. We need a TRULY balanced source. A news app that allows for custom settings for notifications, such as choosing which categories, stories, people, etc, would be heaven. Default notifications for major breaking stories and time windows might also help.
You’re contributing to the world in a crucial way and the timing couldn’t be better. Thanks again.
4th turning underway {strauss-howe theory}, so just brace brace brace and hope we survive
@Craig Carmichael already growing
It’s the economic system that allows for this to happen. If you want the news to be less biased, you need to give them an economic incentive to be more factual. But as of now, this is not the case, so sensationalism will continue.
I mean I live in the Netherlands, more rhan half our country including some of the biggest cities like Amsterdam are below sea level. If we have to retreat from the cost we won't have a country anymore..
Better learn to swim then
Louisiana sympathizes
Amsterdam is already 2 meters below sea level and still very beautiful. Why doesn't it flood now? At what level would it flood currently? Could anything be done technologically to prevent it?
I'm still waiting for starwars level prosthetics
join the military...
Bring on transhuman immortality!
ua-cam.com/video/byDiILrNbM4/v-deo.html
The response to the problems of climate change was way too brief and I suspect edited out. It'd be more interesting to hear more about why a global average temperature increase of 1.5 C would not be too big of a problem for future technology to handle from his perspective, especially because it's frequently cited as being catastrophic from, at least, the acidification of the oceans and the increase in hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters.
That problem will eventually solve itself when world populations start to decline.
Spend a winter living in Canada or Russia and you'll understand why a 1.5 degree increase would be a blessing.
There are more slaves alive today than at any point in human history before but because these modern slaves have access to refrigerators we're supposed to not only accept this, not only be happy with it, but cheer for it? Poor people have not become wealthier, there's been increasing wealth stratification, that's simply untrue. Goods are relatively cheaper to produce and buy, largely due to an expanse in slave labour, now than they were 50 years ago, that's why they can afford disposable razers and indoor plumbing. That is NOT the same as having 8 hrs to sleep a night or a guaranteed 3 meals a day which the majority do not have on account of 18+hr workdays
Such a refreshing view. Great work.