So true. It's easy to think that our contemporary problems are somehow especially dire, but as a species our lives are incomparably better than any generation b

So true. It's easy to think that our contemporary problems are somehow especially dire, but as a species our lives are incomparably better than any generation before. If you were abount to be reincarnated and could pick a decade to be born, knowing that you would be born into a random family somewhere on earth, you'd be a fool to pick any decade in the past. Today, you'd have a ~10% chance of being born into extreme poverty. As recently as 1990, it was ~50%, while back in 1900 it would have been ~90%! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty