Re: Everything is not getting worse
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 11:04 pm
Based on what? you're saying this like it's a certainty and like these kids aren't gonna grow up in a world that's already been used up of resources, in a degraded envionrment and a future mostly full of climate dread, im sorry but you need to get real and get out of the whole "progress is good" mindset, especially when the progress we've experienced has mostly been at the cost of the environment, the very thing we need to survive- progressing sustainably nowadays is pretty much unachievable, anyone that says otherwise is lying to you or to themselves.People living in generation alpha will know greater bounty than any generation that has ever existed on this Earth. The generation that follows them will likely know even greater bounty, this is not new, the rate of change is increasing as someone who lived in the year 1700 may not have noticed much of a difference in their daily life at all if they were to live in 1730 or 1740.
to me, it seems like like you've got a pretty two-dimensional way of thinking about this whole progress thing from what im reading, its as if though technology "progresses" in our lives, we are suddenly better off for it right? im sorry, but it's not that simple and the fact that you keep making it so is incredibly frustrating, you're getting stuck in a narrative(comforting as it may seem) about our future being some star-trek-esque(or close to it) where we'll be better off, even if the evidence points to the opposite direction.This rate of change has only gotten steeper the further forward in time you look, the 1960's were a considerably better time to live than the 1920's, the 2000's a considerably better time to be alive than the 60's and the 2040's are somehow going to become worse than this? Very unlikely.
Then you're blind.However I see no evidence that the general quality of life has any realistic chance of being lower than it is today for the people that are fortunate enough to experience that time.
like i mentioned in my previous comment, antibiotic resistence will be a huge issue in the near-future, it will make tackling diseases, infections and other types of injuries far more difficult than expected, the next generation is going to thank us for our extremely liberal usage of antibiotic based medications. and why do you "seriously doubt" that we can't adapt to the environment? most people can't survive in a prolonged heatwave, as this past summer has indicated to me(https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ ... y-seniors/), what makes you think we will fare any better when the crops we harvest for food fail? what makes you think we'll overcome a series of extreme weather events, droughts, storms, floods when their frequency becomes more common and consistent? what makes you think we can somehow endure a 2 or 3 degree celsius increase in our environment? is it technology that will save us? will we engineer our way out of this? you seem to think so, so i'd like answers. chances are, survival at those temperatures becomes extremely difficult and the body has trouble regulating temperature as is, go beyond the aforementioned degrees of celsius and you will ensure an near-term extinction of the human species.Their medical technology will with certainty be greater than anything we can achieve today as will their ability to generate energy, through whatever means. Climate change will undeniably effect them but to a enough of a degree that they cannot in turn adapt or overcome whatever that effect is would be something I seriously doubt.
again, i wish it was that simple, but the next generation will be the last to die, im not saying that with the concept of life extension or immortality in mind like most here would think, but straight-up there will be nothing left for them to improve upon in the dead world they'll inherit. we've already used up our resources for growth, long long time ago, only way out now, is down.Their world will be an improvement on ours as ours is an improvement on what came before yet still faces challenges and hardships.