How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better? - eviltoast

I’m really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I’ll coast right through it. I’ll also accept “I don’t” and “very poorly” as answers

  • user91@lemmy.world
    83·
    11 months ago

    Have a read of Factfulness. It’ll provide, amongst other things, lovely visualizations to demonstrate that’s not actually true.

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
      51·
      11 months ago

      We’ve had a day past 2C of warming already; how does any of this hold up against our climate’s tendency to feedback loop

    • Droptherock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      11 months ago

      There is a fallacy named after this I’m pretty sure too! The bottom of page 3 of this paper gives a brief explanation as to why humans believe things are getting worse when they aren’t.