Complex Numbers

Doomed

23 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good...

It's worth looking at that link.

I don't dispute any of it - I probably should, but I can't be arsed to check anything - but here's the thing:

We're doomed anyway.

No amount of incremental progress in any area changes this simple fact.

If we don't do it to ourselves, a giant meteor or the Yellowstone Supervolcano or a nearby supernova or some other calamitous event will do it to us. Sooner or later.

Besides, most of this good news - people living longer, child mortality decreasing, poverty decreasing, violent crime decreasing, etc. - means a greater increase in population, which in turn means that we'll hit a Malthusian catastrophe   that much sooner.

Ain't I just a ray of melanoma-inducing sunshine?