The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day.
As bad as it is today, we’ve had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won’t come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.
Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen. Climate change is an apocalypse that is happening.
Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.
Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen.
I’m not sure if you know the history of how close we came to nuclear war in October 1962. It was the first time in history the USA ever went to Defcon 2. We had 25 nuclear bombers in the air with the rest of them on 15 minute standby.
Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.
As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet? That’s Hitler’s number of murdered innocent people.
We have been at worse points in history than we are right now.
Wasn’t that the one where on a Soviet submarine, 2 out of the 3 required officers voted to launch their nukes, but the captain refused?
Also that happened. There was also an “accidental” incursion of ussr air space by the US (likely accidental as the plane ended up landing in Alaska with no fuel)
I do know our history, and in October 1962 the odds of nuclear war were less than the odds of a climate apocalypse today, because they weren’t 100%.
As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet?
Yet? No. But he is on course. The estimated number of deaths from his illegal USAID cuts is actually 14 million by 2030. That’s one policy. I expect that number will be dwarfed by the long term impacts of his environmental policy. Then we have the pending excitement in Iran to worry about. A nation of 93 million people can throw at least a few million more lives on the pyre before all is done.
Physics -> chemistry -> biology. The further you zoom in, the more you come to grips with the just staggering number of hugely improbable events that lead to us being here. I feel bad for people who need to invoke religion to explain this, as it really hides the beauty of it all.
Improbable? Maybe on the odds for one isolated event happening. But considering the vast amount of the universe there is, to me it seems more and more inevitable.
“Fine, I’ll do it myself.” - evolution
I feel bad for people who need to invoke religion to explain this
Just to be clear, I’m not a professional ‘quote maker’. I’m just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism.
“In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.” - Aalewis
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LMAO
Yeah, I was gonna specifically pick out biology. Feels like the more you know about it, the cooler it gets to just head outside and look at critters. Kind of like Pokémon, but real.
So like a reverse Last Week Tonight?
All of the different avenues of gene editing tech that helps with previously incurable diseases, Huntington’s disease being one of several with promising results
I’ve been following this a little bit and it gives me some hope for the future!
The author also had a few great TED talks on the subject:
This book is currently boosting my morale:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453652/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-ritchie-hannah/9781529931242
This one for me: https://plurality.net/
Discusses how to strengthen democracy using the very things that are currently weakening it
Rage Against The Machine
Not sure which world you are from but here on Earth the more you know more terrible it seems
Socialism is currently rising while imperialism is dying away. This knowledge helps with maintaining optimism.
I think OP meant planet Earth when they said “world”. I don’t know where are you from, but I’d say it’s not the same planet I live on.
I live on Earth, too. The US Empire is dying, western Europe is facing a crisis because of the decline in imperialist super-profits, while the global south is escaping underdevelopment and socialist countries like the PRC are rising rapidly. With the downfall of imperialism, there will be a surge in further movements towards socialism.
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