platedlizard posted:

Actually the world will only get better. Sure there's a lot of bad things going on but in the long course of history society has a tendency toward improvement. Slavery used to be the basis for everyone's economy just a few hundred years ago and now it's illegal the world over. Longevity is up, human rights are getting better, and most of the world lives under some form of democratic government that they have a say in.

Global warming will turn the Arctic into a bread basket and everywhere south of it will have nice balmy subtropical weather except the tropics which will stay pretty much the same as they are now, if the conditions during the Miocene (the last time Earth had this much CO2 in the atmosphere) are any indication. Once we get past the 'everything floods' phase it'll be pretty nice.

All in all life will get better and better for us