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CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Melpomene Each generation learns from the errors of their ancestors and also from their own ones.
So, there is a hope that this will help them.
Most of my generation wanted a better world.
And there are SOME things that improved.
But, trully, far from enough.
Most of the main problems we had are still with us and some others are worst.
So both, youngers will have to face the issues we hoped to solve but and because we couldn´t.
And they will probably have, sorry, no other alternative than to try to their best.
So, there is a hope that this will help them.
Most of my generation wanted a better world.
And there are SOME things that improved.
But, trully, far from enough.
Most of the main problems we had are still with us and some others are worst.
So both, youngers will have to face the issues we hoped to solve but and because we couldn´t.
And they will probably have, sorry, no other alternative than to try to their best.
CarolineP · 70-79, F
Forgive me disagreeing with you, but by almost any measure you can nominate, our generation - and the one before it - have produced the greatest overall advancement in human society ever. Simple things like life expectancy - worldwide up 35% in our lifetime. Famine abolished. Colonialism abolished. Slavery a heinous offence in all but a handful of closed states. When I was a girl, around 40% of the world's population lived in dire poverty. The latest figure is 9% and declining. Smallpox has been eliminated. No one NEED die of TB. Polio has virtually been eliminated. the threat of mutual assured nuclear destruction abolished. Works literacy was 40% in 1960. It is now around 91% . In tertiary education world wide, females now magically exceed male students. Pollution is massively decreased. despite a doubling of the population. In fact, it is hard to find a measure, an issue, a topic, a problem where our generation is not passing on a better world to the next. Even global homicide rate has declined by 30% after adjustment for population increase.
And please don't talk about "climate change" Apart from the FACT that global temperature has not statistically increased since 2000, a warmer world is a healthier, more productive world. @CharlieZ
And please don't talk about "climate change" Apart from the FACT that global temperature has not statistically increased since 2000, a warmer world is a healthier, more productive world. @CharlieZ
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@CarolineP I agree with you in most of your description of the improvements made by our generation.
I said and I stand for it, it was far from enough and that the remaining problems are quite serious ones.
Even so, I have to dissagree with you about not all but some of the data you posted, critical ones.
- Colonialism, in it´s classical manifestations was, yes, mostly abolished at a high but needed cost payed by the ones who fighted it around the world.
Some other less conspicuous but also oppresive forms of it still remain. There is a job to do about and Will be done.
- Your figures about decreassing poverty in a world scale are only formal. Is mostly the result of lowering the monetary standards to meassure it. In terms of material basic needs consumption the results are less tan spectacular.
- Literacy levels has trully increased.
That can´t hide that are meassured by standards that need an update in relation to the educational level needed for actual tech productive demmands.
In that terms, a literacy of over 90% is quite optimistic.
- Individual originated homicide had lowered.
But the mortality caused by the higher "density" (it´s a military meassure) of damage to civil populations caused by even smaller conflics is comparable to bigger wars.
- Meassured by multiple scientific institutions (*) around the world, pollution have dramatically increased.
- Also meassured and modelized by multiple scientific institutions (*) around the world, global warming is an increasing critical problem.
Estatistical data taken during the last 50 years (begining when there was still no clues about) shows it.
- "...a warmer world is a healthier, more productive world" is a short scope, political biased and only wishful view of the phenomena.
(* As a researcher myself, even in different disciplines I had been and am in fluid contact with the more first hand related part of the scientific community).
I said and I stand for it, it was far from enough and that the remaining problems are quite serious ones.
Even so, I have to dissagree with you about not all but some of the data you posted, critical ones.
- Colonialism, in it´s classical manifestations was, yes, mostly abolished at a high but needed cost payed by the ones who fighted it around the world.
Some other less conspicuous but also oppresive forms of it still remain. There is a job to do about and Will be done.
- Your figures about decreassing poverty in a world scale are only formal. Is mostly the result of lowering the monetary standards to meassure it. In terms of material basic needs consumption the results are less tan spectacular.
- Literacy levels has trully increased.
That can´t hide that are meassured by standards that need an update in relation to the educational level needed for actual tech productive demmands.
In that terms, a literacy of over 90% is quite optimistic.
- Individual originated homicide had lowered.
But the mortality caused by the higher "density" (it´s a military meassure) of damage to civil populations caused by even smaller conflics is comparable to bigger wars.
- Meassured by multiple scientific institutions (*) around the world, pollution have dramatically increased.
- Also meassured and modelized by multiple scientific institutions (*) around the world, global warming is an increasing critical problem.
Estatistical data taken during the last 50 years (begining when there was still no clues about) shows it.
- "...a warmer world is a healthier, more productive world" is a short scope, political biased and only wishful view of the phenomena.
(* As a researcher myself, even in different disciplines I had been and am in fluid contact with the more first hand related part of the scientific community).
