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I hate to break it to you, but if the news is affecting your mental health you should realize that that is by design. The world may or may not be in a good stat

by gfodor 7y ago

I hate to break it to you, but if the news is affecting your mental health you should realize that that is by design. The world may or may not be in a good state of affairs in an absolute sense, but it is better than it has ever been, and insofar as the news seems worse now than in the past, that has more to do with those in charge of the news media and their incentives and biases than actual changes in the state of the world getting worse.

VvR-Ox 7y ago
You are absolutely right about the design of the news but despite this very bad things are happening (just the facts). Let me bring in some of those facts: 1. "25.9 million refugees globally -- the highest level ever recorded" according to Amnesty International (https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants/global-refugee-crisis-statistics-and-facts/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seeker...) 2. "Global emissions increased from 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1900 to over 36 billion tonnes 115 years later" (https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...) 3. "Plastic in the oceans" (https://ourworldindata.org/where-does-plastic-accumulate https://ourworldindata.org/where-does-plastic-accumulate) 4. "52.4 percent decline in sperm concentration and a 59.3 percent decline in total sperm counts from 1973 to 2011 for men in the West" (https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/sperm-counts-in-the-western-world-have-declined-nearly-60-percent-since-the-1970s https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/sperm-counts-in-the-w...) Ok I will stop it right here but of course there are many more tendencies that would speak against a too optimistic view on the world at the moment in my opinion. Of course there is enough media, drugs and be-happy-every-day-mantras etc. to disturb your thoughts and allow to ignore all this.

by gfodor 7y ago

VvR-Ox 7y ago

You are absolutely right about the design of the news but despite this very bad things are happening (just the facts). Let me bring in some of those facts: 1. "25.9 million refugees globally -- the highest level ever recorded" according to Amnesty International (https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants/global-refugee-crisis-statistics-and-facts/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seeker...) 2. "Global emissions increased from 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1900 to over 36 billion tonnes 115 years later" (https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...) 3. "Plastic in the oceans" (https://ourworldindata.org/where-does-plastic-accumulate https://ourworldindata.org/where-does-plastic-accumulate) 4. "52.4 percent decline in sperm concentration and a 59.3 percent decline in total sperm counts from 1973 to 2011 for men in the West" (https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/sperm-counts-in-the-western-world-have-declined-nearly-60-percent-since-the-1970s https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/sperm-counts-in-the-w...) Ok I will stop it right here but of course there are many more tendencies that would speak against a too optimistic view on the world at the moment in my opinion. Of course there is enough media, drugs and be-happy-every-day-mantras etc. to disturb your thoughts and allow to ignore all this.