• qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    How about awareness that climate change will ruin us all.

    It checks out that the peak of optimism in your graph is around the 80’s and 90’s. We weren’t just “optimistic” in the 90’s. We were delusional. We were ignoring problems instead of solving them

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      11 months ago

      I feel every era had its “boogey man” issue. I doubt there was ever an era of “nothing to worry about”

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        11 months ago

        Understandable to think this. Maybe we did come really close to some of those disasters, such as nuclear war. It’s just survivors bias to think that it wasn’t civilization ending danger we were in back then.

        I hope we learn from that and steer clear of the danger next time, rather than think it’ll be alright because nobody happened to actually press the red button back then so I guess we worried about nothing

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      11 months ago

      They were also high as fuck on coke back then. All we got is damn fent. Of course they were peppier and riskier.