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What kind of dystopia is the world going to be with climate change raging, disease and poverty wiping out hundreds of thousands, lack of access to healthcare by
by ck2 5y ago
What kind of dystopia is the world going to be with climate change raging, disease and poverty wiping out hundreds of thousands, lack of access to healthcare by millions while the rich and famous play moonball on the moon?
- kragen 5y agoHmm, I think disease, poverty, and lack of access to healthcare are less serious problems now than at any previous point in human history, even though covid has killed more than 4.69 million people so far, and probably closer to 20 million. (By way of comparison, cancer and coronary artery disease kill almost 9 million people a year each. Diarrhea kills 1.3 million.) So if those are your standards, then on four of the five axes you mention—climate change, disease, poverty, healthcare access, and moonball—this would count as a utopia rather than a dystopia. Climate change is a pretty big deal, though, and it could undo all the dramatic advancements we've made in space travel, healthcare access, and fighting disease and poverty.
- antifa 5y agoHN: this would count as a utopia The rest of Americans: affordable healthcare please...
- kragen 5y agoUSans are only 5% of the world population, and even they have better access to healthcare than 40 years ago. Most of the rest of America (everything except Colombia, Venezuela, the US, and parts of Peru and El Salvador) does have affordable healthcare.
- sbierwagen 5y agoThere are hundreds of millions of people right now who look at the people in the First World as living lives akin to moon billionaires. If your goal for a just world is "nobody is ever unhappy or jealous of another person" then that is a very, very high bar to clear.