Global supply capacity and quality of life are steadily increasing- if anything, you can check global growth rate and poverty index [1]. These are hard data. T

Global supply capacity and quality of life are steadily increasing- if anything, you can check global growth rate and poverty index [1]. These are hard data. The increase in natural disasters is also real, but how large is its impact? Can we say it's "eroding" something that is instead steadily increasing? Have you seen the Covid-19 lockdowns? Its impact on our life and on the global economy? That is what a real emergency looks like. But let me break down the parent's statement: > It’s becoming apparent that the 21st century will be marked by a series of natural disasters of various severities and speeds Every century is marked by a series of natural disasters. Some natural disasters are made more frequent by climate change. Some extremely serious ones are not: earthquakes, tsunamis (the last big one killed 220 thousand people) or pandemics like the one we're living now. We've never been on great terms with nature, and we've learned to cope: controlling fires, building water management systems, controlling the spread of diseases and developing vaccines, etc. > that regularly erode global supply capacity and quality of life. The global wealth is steadily increasing, so it's not clear there is an erosion. Adverse events impact our quality of life, but that's a given, and what we do is preventing and mitigating them. The current pandemic is a natural disaster orders of magnitude worse than anything climate change has brought us- it puts things into perspective. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty