Do you believe the world is a safer place than it was 50 years ago?

Question

When you take into account international relations, climate change, social cohesion.

Answer 1

No, I do not.

50 years ago, in 1957, we were in the midst of the cold war. The general population may have felt LESS safe back then, because they were afraid of nuclear attacks. However, they were MORE safe then, because there were far less materials and technologies available for building weapons of mass destruction, and fewer countries/radical groups actually had them.

50 years ago, most people hadn't even been on an airplane yet; now international travel is commonplace, so it is easier for those with bad intentions to move around the globe. In some ways this should be contributing to the "social cohesion" that you mention, and it has in most Western countries. But there still are underlying fears that still exist to fuel racial/ethnic/religios tensions throughout Western societies.

Right now international relations are tenuous at best. And even within countries and cultures there exists enough dissatisfaction and unrest that people will turn on their own: remember Oklahoma City? That was an attack in America, by Americans, against the American government, with innocent American victims.

Anything can happen, anywhere, at any time.

Answer 2

YES, thanks to the sacrifices of the American People!
Boy, you People will lie about anything over and over, believing that repeating a LIE will convince The People is it True. Well you are wrong! REAL Scientists advised that the Earth is just following it Normal Cycles over thousands of years.
Look at this Spring. Normal temperatures are in the 50s in NE. This year they are in the 30s and 40s. Global WARMING? NO!
International Relations, the Global War on Terrorism, and other Problems can and will be taken care of if the Enemies of the United States, in the US, are eliminated.
Social Cohesion has proved to be, in All other Countries, the fact that they have One National Language. That is what we need in the US.

Answer 3

No.

I remember being in grade school and the "drills" in case of nuclear bomb threats. At least someone thought of something to do if it actually happened.

Now, the threats in this country are so vast, so many from terrorists, drugs, gangs, people going postal, law enforcement video taped abuse, and our government is in constant "independant investigations" for corruption...

I call it the Home Land Shock & Awe. Overwhelm the citizens of this country and they will just give up, surrender without declaring marshall law.

Thankfully after the last election hope did make an appearence on the horizon.

We need term limits for the house and senate. No more life time careers, no more spending years doing nothing.

Pull the plug on the power players and lets get back to business and govern our country!

Answer 4

Let me see...1957 race riots in Arkansas, Alabama, Missippi, New York, 1957 President Eisnhower send Federal Troops to Little Rock Arkansas to quell riots. 1957 female circumcision was still leagally performed. 1957 US military accidently dropps an atomic warhead on Mars Bluff South Carolina. 1957 Jordan asks Great Britain for hel defending against an immenent invasion from Iraq.1957 Fidel Castro overtakes Cuba 1961 we had Soviet Union made nukes pointed at us in Cuba...

Answer 5

Definitely not because that is when many tragic events occurred like the Great Depression and the World War I and 2. Many lives were lost and there were many bad people. There was many fights and chaos 50 years ago. It may seem as if this modern time is bad but the past has suffered worse
The Great Depression was a time of economic down turn, which started after the Stock Market Crash on October 29, 1929, also known as Black Tuesday. It began in the United States and quickly spread to Europe and every part of the world, with devastating effects in both industrialized countries and those which export raw materials. International trade declined sharply, as did personal incomes, tax revenues, prices and profits. Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by 40 to 60 percent.[1] Mining and logging areas had perhaps the most striking blow because the demand fell sharply and there were few employment alternatives. The Great Depression ended at different times in different countries; for subsequent history see Home front during World War II. The majority of countries set up relief programs, and most underwent some sort of political upheaval, pushing them to the left or right. Democracy was weakened and on the defensive, as dictators such as Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini made major gains, which helped set the stage for World War II in 1939.

World War I, also known as WWI (abbreviation), the First World War, the Great War, and "The War to End All Wars," was a global military conflict that took place mostly in Europe between 1914 and 1918. It left millions dead and shaped the modern world.

The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, Great Britain, and later, Italy and the United States, defeated the Central Powers, led by Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire.

Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by an unoccupied space between the trenches called "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and — for the first time — from the air. More than nine million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and millions of civilians perished.

The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and new states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Yugoslavia were created, and in the cases of Lithuania and Poland, recreated.

World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th century’s nationalistic revolutions. The outcomes of World War I would be important factors in the development of World War II 21 years later.

World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers from 1939 until 1945. Armed forces from over seventy nations engaged in aerial, naval and ground-based combat. Spanning much of the globe, World War II resulted in the deaths of over 72 million people, making it the deadliest conflict in human history. The war ended with an Allied victory.

Answer 6

I think we are in general. The cold war is long over, the old hotbed of europe has chilled, and less people seem to be dying overall in conflicts as compared to 30 years ago. GW has not happened yet really, and there is time.

Answer 7

Disease wise, it is safer today. In all other respects, it was safer 50 years ago. There was much more morality and much more community building back then too.

Picture a personification of the American Dream, basically.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

NO definetlly not the earth is heating up by the second and icebergs are melting, wich means the water levels are rising, wich means in a number of years many states around the world will be underwater. Plus it is killing many antartic animals including polar bears because when they swim to get food they are swimming for days without reaching any icebergs so they drown in the middle of the ocean because there are simply no more icebergs left verry sad its all because of us humans to. It is mortly airconditioners that are doing it wich seems ironic since everytime we turn them on we just make more global warming= more heat and then we all do it agin and again (smiles guilty and raises hand) including me.....................................what can i say aircon is addictive

Answer 10

Yes, and no at the same time. With today's modern day advances, we know a lot more than what we used to, but than again, so does everyone else. It's a lose lose situation. Every great empire will eventually fall. Look back into history... Rome, Greece, Babylon, etc. Scarily enough, history has it's tendency to repeat it's self.