US politics are making me seriously anxious. Will I have to leave if I want my kids to grow up in a healthy democracy? Where would we go? Will there be violence before/after the election or transfer of power?
More than anything, I don't have much of a sense of hope for something better. Maybe things go ok and "the bleeding stops", but it'll still be a long, difficult slog to start fixing all that's broken.
Oh, yeah, and there's also a deadly pandemic on the loose.
You forgot that global warming will displace 1/3 of the earth’s population by 2070, and that the WHO is now estimating that the coronavirus response will lead to 1 billion starving people (1/7 of the population), up from their beginning of year estimate of 135M.
That’s 10x more people than died in WWII (including civilians on all continents). As a percentage of population, it’s 3x more than WWII.
In the WHO numbers, I don’t think starvation implies death, but it’s clear the earth has never seen a humanitarian crisis of this scale.
(Edit: my percentage of population math was off. It’s 4-5x WWII on that metric.)
More than anything, I don't have much of a sense of hope for something better. Maybe things go ok and "the bleeding stops", but it'll still be a long, difficult slog to start fixing all that's broken.
Oh, yeah, and there's also a deadly pandemic on the loose.