"...it turned out that most of the human wellbeing metrics that I’d assumed to be getting worse were actually getting better. Take child mortality: 200 years ago, almost half of children would die before reaching puberty, and that’s now less than 5%."
– from The Guardian
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This was my limited contribution to the discussion:
200 years ago there were at least ten times more mammals and birds (especially on migration routes) around for us to kill and starve. The world used to be loud (in some places, deafening) with birdsong. Where I live, in unindustrialised and heavily-wooded French countryside I hear one blackbird and a couple of owls. A couple of tits come to my balcony for water in the summer. Since I came here, swifts and martins have almost disappeared. I have never heard or seen a wren, but there are pigeons in the villages, magpies, hawks and other raptors.
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