How has the world improved in the last 200 years?

Question

Any weblinks would be appreciated too?

In the form of Ecology and Humanity?

Answer 1

The world itself, like ecologically speaking? It hasn't improved much. Most of the improvements are in terms of discoveries and inventions, like morphine (led to modern surgery), radio/TV broadcasting (spreading news and entertainment in real time), recording devices (you don't have to have live stuff for your entertainment), antibiotics (a discovery of natural substances that kill bacteria), flight and motor vehicles (love that transportation.)

But ecologically speaking, we've gotten rid of wetlands, grasslands, mountains, forests...we've cut, burned, mined, and fouled all kinds of habitats. We've killed nature and ourselves with various types of pollution, including nuclear, chemical, and fertilizer wastes. We've screwed up our own climate by air pollution and destroying habitats that naturally reduced greenhouse gases. We've destroyed rain forests, coral reefs, glaciers...we've f*cked up in a lot of ways.

Hopefully, we'll discover ways to undo the damage we've caused because we haven't made the world better in the last 200 years. Hell, we still have a threat from smallpox and anthrax--how did that happen? Shouldn't we be done with those diseases by now? We haven't taken good care of the earth and current technology just ruins the earth instead of protecting it.

Oh, yeah, and we've had wars, too. Don't forget the horrible wars that have happened in the last 200 years. Not that it matters to the earth if we kill each other, but it matters to people.

Answer 2

If you go back in time to 1806, the world would probably seem very alien to how it is now. The average lifespan and human population was considerably lower, things like combustion engines and airplanes weren't even thought of, humanity has been advancing exponentially over the past century and a half, and isn't showing signs of stopping. That is unless we run overpopulate or run out of all our resources, then we would all be probably moving back down the technological tree :/

Answer 3

The more you look, the better we have it now compared to 200 years ago. Refrigeration, flush toilets, TV, painless (comparatively) dentistry, mechanized farming, the toothbrush and on and on. A wounded civil war soldier had a 50/50 chance of survival at the field hospital, a wounded soldier had a 399 in 400 chance of survival in a field hospital in the Vietnam war.

Answer 4

By changeing

Answer 5

Improved? Not in my book. I'd rather have lived back then than now.

Answer 6

u being born was apparently not one of the improvements