Utter nonsense based entirely on fearmongering news organizations.
There has simply never been a better, safer, healthier, more affluent time to be alive in the history of the human race.
More people live under functioning democracies than ever in history. More people are living without the threat of violence from their own or other governments than ever before. More people have access to healthcare, education, and opportunity than ever before.
Minorities have better and more effective representation, women are more involved and have better access to public life, there is better awareness of and support for mental and emotional health, there are more national parks, more environmental organizations, more money being poured into 'green' technologies. There are more philanthropists doing more with more money.
More people are being fed on less land, science is developing new foods which require less care, water, pesticides, and energy to produce higher caloric content.
Prohibitionist laws are falling, barriers to full-participation in society are falling, ethnic self-determinism is on the rise, the number of religious people is falling, the number of people with college degrees is rising.
We just flew a probe past Pluto and found the most Earth-like planet yet outside our own Solar System.
The world is fine. Turn off your goddamn TV.
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