Dr. Deborah Brosnan, a climate and ocean scientist, predicts that Earth could eventually become uninhabitable for humans given the grave state of the planet
The social media echo chamber has that effect. But statistically speaking, this is humanity’s golden age. The average lifespan is up, we have instant global communication and positioning (wow!), conflict is down (take the wider view)…
Like, even if you added Ukraine and Gaza to this, they’re small compared to historical conflicts. And this graph would be even more pronounced if we normalized it as percentages against the global population – literally the last few generations have been least likely to die in conflict across all of human history.
The social media echo chamber has that effect. But statistically speaking, this is humanity’s golden age. The average lifespan is up, we have instant global communication and positioning (wow!), conflict is down (take the wider view)…
Like, even if you added Ukraine and Gaza to this, they’re small compared to historical conflicts. And this graph would be even more pronounced if we normalized it as percentages against the global population – literally the last few generations have been least likely to die in conflict across all of human history.