You have to make a more rigorous claim for pessimism IMO. People usually hyperfocus on one bad area then get very down. And we all have a strong negativity bias. It’s not rational

There are many positive developments

- We have technology that could actually curb carbon emissions and decouple global economy from carbon. Clean energy is often cheaper than dirty energy, and getting cheaper.

- Trump oddly has helped decouple the world from carbon by being utterly incompetent in Iran

- the upper middle class in the US has never been larger [1]

- in 1981, 41% of the worlds population was in extreme poverty, now that’s down to 10% [2]

- Global infant mortality is way down compared to 1990 [3]

- life expectancy globally has gone from mid 60s to mid 70s [4]

I could go on. But holistically the world IS getting better in quite a few areas.

Follow subreddits like /r/PoliticalOptimism Or /r/OptimistsUnite if you want to

1- https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/upper-middle-class-income-u... 2- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-in-ex...

3-https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-detail...

4 - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?utm_sour...