earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.

When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!

We fixed it.

We CAN fix it and we ARE fixing it and we DID fix it.

aetherograph




earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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overmocha1068

There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's still far from our reach.
But it's there.

hope-for-the-planet

Believing that things can get better is not blind hope or optimism--it is based on hard data that many things have consistently gotten better over the arc of history.

Is it silly and naive to believe we might actually be able to make things better? Not at all. We have many times before. We are doing it right now.



hope-for-the-planet Believing that things can get better is not blind hope or optimism--it is based on hard data that many things have consistently gotten better over the arc of history. In addition to all that was mentioned above: The likelihood of dying in infancy or childhood--or losing a child--has plummeted just in my lifetime. The likelihood of dying in a natural disaster is the lowest in recorded human history. Yes, even with the uptick in natural disaster intensity from climate change! Humans alive right now are more likely to have access to healthcare, electricity, education, birth control, clean water, and nutritious food than at any other point in human history. There are so many diseases we can treat now that were a death sentence for 90% of human history. This is not by accident. This is because generations of humans put in work to make life better for their communities. Some of our solutions had the side effect of creating other problems--better access to electricity that ultimately made people's lives easier and safer led to pollution and climate change, for example--but we are tackling those knock on problems too. Our generation's solutions to our current problems will probably create their own less-bad side effects for the humans after us to deal with. Is it silly and naive to believe we might actually be able to make things better? Not at all. We have many times before. We are doing it right now.
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