Bill Gates: Why I Decided to Edit an Issue of TIME

Human race has evolved from that sub-atomic particle of star dust since eons and reached this point where we are typing this comment. Obviously this cannot happen without the necessary checks and balances throughout history and it will be this way going into the future. So no need to spell doom, though the cautious gene in us still keeps vigil.

Just because the world is a better place than it was 50 years ago does not mean it is a better place than it was 2 years ago.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse.<p>Penn Jillette

&gt; So why does it feel like the world is in decline<p>Because our environment is on the decline. Our oceans are full of plastic, our forests are converted to farmland for cattle, pollution from electronics is rising, and our global climate is changing for the worse.<p>Even optimistic areas like health care are being confounded by obesity and malnutrition. It’s great that global health care and poverty rates are improving. But in some of our own countries things are getting worse. There’s a growing income inequality and an obesity epidemic. My generation may be the first in a while to have a lower life expectancy than my parents’. Many of my friends are feeling hopeless because their university degrees are buying them 20 hours a week at minimum wage (which has not adjusted for inflation too well) while the cost of housing sky rockets.