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Re:Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019) by bryanrasmussen on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:09AM (#28431549)
>The world is better off today in basically every way than it was 100 years ago, and almost unimaginably better than it was 200 years ago.

so this seems sort of like the old joke about jumping off the skyscraper and as you fall past the 10th floor say "so far so good", only now the person falling is doing cocaine and says "things are only getting better!"

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Re:Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019) by marcusverus on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:20AM (#28431592)
GP is objectively correct. 200 years ago, ~95% of humans lived in extreme poverty. 100 years ago it was ~85%. Today only ~10% live in extreme poverty, and the number continues to fall.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty

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Re:Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019) by esarbe on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:40PM (#28437188)
That doesn't change that fact that the ground is getting closer and closer and we're still accelerating.

We're burning the planet.

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