Is the world getting better or worse ?

[August1991]

IMHO, Europeans as a race are violent people.

When the males forget the violence, they start again.

[August1991]

Is the world getting better?

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Define "better".

[Nationalist]

10 hours ago, August1991 said:

IMHO, Europeans as a race are violent people.

When the males forget the violence, they start again.

Do you figure Europeans are more violent than other denominations?

[Michael Hardner]

10 hours ago, August1991 said:

Is the world getting better?

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Define "better".

Maslow created a hierarchy of needs.  The most these are met, the better the world feels.

[SpankyMcFarland]

It won’t be better for all the species that will disappear, courtesy of the Anthropocene. 

[August1991]

On 7/10/2023 at 8:13 AM, Nationalist said:

Do you figure Europeans are more violent than other denominations?

For the past several centuries, you Americans are peaceful - except around 1860.

Europeans? Crazy violent. 1789-1815, 1914-1945.

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I'm Canadian. We get along.

[August1991]

1 hour ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

It won’t be better for all the species that will disappear, courtesy of the Anthropocene. 

Anthropocene?

is that a technical term - like when elevators were supposed to stop on 1 Jan 2000? 

[SpankyMcFarland]

43 minutes ago, August1991 said:

Anthropocene?

is that a technical term - like when elevators were supposed to stop on 1 Jan 2000? 

That era which began when our effect on the planet was so large it could be seen in the geological record and ecosystems. 

[Nationalist]

55 minutes ago, August1991 said:

For the past several centuries, you Americans are peaceful - except around 1860.

Europeans? Crazy violent. 1789-1815, 1914-1945.

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I'm Canadian. We get along.

Ok...so I sense you're saying that perhaps there are too many different cultures in Europe to be at peace for any extended period of time?

[August1991]

On 7/12/2023 at 8:18 PM, SpankyMcFarland said:

That era which began when our effect on the planet was so large it could be seen in the geological record and ecosystems. 

I live in Montreal.

Some 30,000 years ago my city was buried under a glacier, a kilometer or two of ice.

Then, around 10.000 tears ago, a natural dam in northwestern Ontario (Devil's Crater) collapsed and the Lake Agassiz flowed to the Atlantic.

My city is a result.    

[August1991]

Ontario has many lakes.

Quebec has many rivers.

Such is Canada.

[carepov]

The world is getting better, even if it doesn’t always feel that way.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Enlightenment-Now

Also:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59395031-superabundance

[SpankyMcFarland]

History isn’t cyclical. It undulates. And I think we’re surfing on a wonderful wave that’s losing momentum. There are simply too many of us on this pale blue dot and we are going through Gaia’s reserves at a fearsome clip. Climate change is, well, the tip of the melting iceberg; hundreds of new environmental horrors await if we can survive our fights with each other.