Is The World Going To Hell In A Handcart

[emmie]

whichever paper you read, or tv news item, there are wars, strife, conflict,
nowhere is really safe, not even in good old Britain, or is it just the same old story, mankind can't help but muck things up..

[woofgang]

But there are more humans too. I wonder if anyone has ever looked at the number of of people killed by violence in any year as a percentage of the world's population at the time? The Romans, for instance, used to eliminate whole villages or sub tribes by killing, burning the settlement, killing or driving off the stock and salting their land.

[emmie]

as i said mankind hasn't really progressed,

[woofgang]

well what benefit would there be to progression to humankind as a whole? Species - all species - do what works.

[ummmm]

I thought you were saying that things are getting worse?

[emmie]

we have nukes, not sure thats a good thing for anyone

[emmie]

i meant we don't stop fighting each other

[jno]

imagine living through the Black Death (or worse, dying of it) - every second person dying fast and in agony.

It doesn't happen now, since we know what it is and how to fight it. Isn't that progress? Are we really worse off now than in the 14th century?

[Psybbo]

More likely on the HS2, Emmie

[emmie]

psybbo, HS2, get to Brum 15 mins earlier

[tonyav]

Oi, don't bring hell to my neck of the woods.

[emmie]

will be hell here too, large part of Euston will be demolished, business, social housing, private housing, possibly the station because some joker said that it needs modernising

[emmie]

it does, but the plans seem to be so costly and will take a very long time

[tonyav]

But the government say that the HS2 will boost employment !, who for ?.

[emmie]

divebuddy, more or less, Bosnia, Serbia, might be small, but deadly, and we aren't all buddies together, it wouldn't take much to tip things, look what is happening in the Ukraine - Russia

[emmie]

i suspect the reason that the stone age people killed one another was pretty much the same as now territory, and perhaps food sources, tribal attitudes prevail, just look at Syria

[woofgang]

It depends on your definition of "mucking things up" so far as the species goes, the strategies used are working well.

[ToraToraTora]

No.