Question of the week: is the world getting better or worse?

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1. Zeki Ergas says

   14/12/2018 at 19 h 23 min

   It’s certainly both: it is better in the so-called democratic and relatively wealthy and developed countries. Even if inequality is getting worse and people are getting more selfish; nationalism et even populism are growing. But humanity is in dire straits because it is caught in this economic growth and capitalist system that is not sustainable for the planet which we are slowly but surely destroying. It will soon be too late to change this terrible fate that, if not our children, our grand-children will suffer. It is possible to change this terrible fate, but that will require a lowering of strandards of living for everbody. Instead, what we have is a terrible polarisation of society into the haves et the have-nots. The latter, like the yellow-vests of France, are rejecting this situation. But the haves, and especially the rich, are unwilling to forego their privileges. So can the situation develop into full-fledged civil war? or can the situation be changed peacefully? the latter will require wise and strong leadership. Today the odds are against it, but that may change in the future, if the alternative is violence and civil war.

2. Umit says

   14/12/2018 at 12 h 53 min

   We are living in an unsustainable world.
   Climate change is going to finish this
   Civilisation.