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> Last year, the UN said the Yemen/Africa crisis was the worst humanitarian crisis since WW2. Looking that up real quick, it sounds like it's put 20 million pe
by oconnor663 9y ago
> Last year, the UN said the Yemen/Africa crisis was the worst humanitarian crisis since WW2.
Looking that up real quick, it sounds like it's put 20 million people at risk of starvation, which is very bad. But the Great Leap Forward in China had an actual death toll (not just a risk estimate) that was even larger than that, 1958-62.
- danso 9y agoSure, but the OP isn't saying that 2017 was better than the 1950s, he says he believes it to be "probably the very best year in the long history of humanity". Which means it's better than 2016, 2015, 2012, etc. Is it possible all those other years had similar continent-level crises that make them less bad than 2017? I get that his larger point that Western suffering is a small part of the equation. But it seems to me there was a lot of suffering elsewhere too. Not Holocaust or Spanish Flu levels of suffering, just maybe enough to make it less great of a year than others this decade.