Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C

Re:Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C by _Microft on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:00AM (#15619263)

No matter how bad times large segments of the planet are experiencing, there have been worse times. Meaning:almost all of the past was worse than it is today.

At https://ourworldindata.org/ you can find tons of data, info-graphics and articles from various (respectable) sources backing that claim. That's not meaning that things are all rosy yet - just meaning that they have been worse in the past!

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Re:Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C by kerbalspacepro on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:56AM (#15619625)

I feel like people use the current ok state of humanity and the phrase "it's been worse!" to block out a completely unrelated statement, "it might get worse".

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Re:Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C by _Microft on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:49AM (#15620064)

I never said that we not better make sure that it stays that way.

If I see someone mentioning the "current, miserable state of the world" I have to object and correct their skewed view (which is not of the present but of a wrongly remembered or romanticized past that serves as incorrect baseline for the comparison!).

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Re:Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C by marcus_holmes on Saturday November 04, 2017 @04:05AM (#15624215)

I think it's not so much a rosy view of the past, but a fear-filled view of the present.

I did a quick poll of my FB feed, and about 60% of my "friends" felt that the present was worse than the past. Despite all the evidence saying that it's not.

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