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Complex Numbers #943928 added October 22, 2018 at 12:56am
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Doomed
23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good...
It's worth looking at that link.
I don't dispute any of it - I probably should, but I can't be arsed to check anything - but here's the thing:
We're doomed anyway.
No amount of incremental progress in any area changes this simple fact.
If we don't do it to ourselves, a giant meteor or the Yellowstone Supervolcano or a nearby supernova or some other calamitous event will do it to us. Sooner or later.
Besides, most of this good news - people living longer, child mortality decreasing, poverty decreasing, violent crime decreasing, etc. - means a greater increase in population, which in turn means that we'll hit a Malthusian catastrophe  that much sooner.
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