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0 pointswkat42422y ago0 comments

Those two centuries ago probably yes. Three decades ago probably not. The world is in a much darker place than the 90s. And our extreme consumption is partly to blame, as is internet manipulation of the masses.

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cyberlurker2y ago

Cancer treatment is way better now than even a few years ago. Miles ahead of the 90s.

The bee population in America is supposedly growing very quickly thanks in part to tax breaks in Texas.

Global poverty is way down. Large part of that is China.

Gay rights have come a long way. Not perfect, but it’s nice that generally people can be more open about who they are.

I absolutely love all the open source projects out there for almost anything I want.

Yeah, we could be doing better. Much better. But it’s actually unlikely we will hit the worst case scenarios for climate change. The developing world is going to get rocked by the 2+C temperature increase, but it won’t be an extinction event, there is still more we can do, and there is much less denialism than the 90s or 00s.

Am I touching too much grass?

wkat4242OP2y ago

There's some positives yes but it feels like world in decline gearing up for war.

Russia and China are again extremely adversarial and autocratic, the US is tearing itself apart in political polarisation. In my own country the extreme right fascists won 24% of votes. Gay rights are ok but Trans people are being demonised by the right now. As a whole it feels like the LGBTQ+ community is under attack. Big corporations are getting ever more powerful.

The internet is decidedly less free and very enshittified and we get tracked and surveilled wherever we go, online or not.

And no it won't be an extinction event but it will be heavy for the marginal people everywhere, leading to even more differences between rich and poor and even more pressure to equalise this by war.

And in the 90s we had much better social welfare safety nets here. Three decades of neoliberal government hollowed out anything good here in Holland. The rage of the disadvantaged by this are what's fueling this swing to fascism, they take advantage of this anger and redirect it to worse.

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