[Why] End of the World

Yesterday's post was a little depressing, but the real depressing thing is that over the past 1,000 years [with the exception of weapons of mass destruction] life has gotten better for almost the entire human population. Extreme poverty and food insecurity are way down, medicine is doing amazing things, there is literally access to almost all the information in the history of the world at our fingertips, people have quality-of-life items that would be inconceivable 100 years ago (air conditioners, dish washers, laundry machines, phones, internet), we can communicate or travel easily to anywhere in the world, there are fewer and fewer dangerous jobs, child labor, slavery, etc. Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone in the world, but on average, people are much, much better off. And we put it all at risk with two very specific and avoidable things: war and destroying our environment. As for war, 99% of people are against it, and it only serves the elites, as they are literally risking an amazing future for all mankind because of their madness. We have the ability to feed, cloth, and educate every single person in the world; we have the ability to save our environment, and could do both with only moderate sacrifices among those who have an insane about of privilege. Amazingly, people don't demand a reasonable and rational approach of saving our ourselves from the only things that could destroy us all. We are so smart, yet so stupid.