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torte-petite t1_j54ud8d wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in The race to make diesel engines run on hydrogen by FDuquesne

Yeah, I quite like living in the most peaceful, educated, and prosperous period in human history

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Fiskifus t1_j54x5ty wrote

prosperous for who and for how many people and at what price, taking into consideration that we are generating a civilisation-ending event for our precious infinite growth in a finite planet.

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torte-petite t1_j551lwf wrote

prosperous for basically the whole of mankind:

Consider that in 1800, by a $1.90 per day standard, 81 percent of people worldwide were in poverty. One-hundred-ninety years later, only 44 percent were in poverty — a reduction of less than one-fifth of a percentage point per year. By contrast, in the 28 years since 1990, the rate of $1.90 per day poverty fell by more than 1.2 percentage points per year to less than 10 percent.

Economic growth is paying for the R&D and investment in renewability/sustainability tech that will keep civilization going indefinitely.

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Fiskifus t1_j552rih wrote

I agree 1.90 per day is poverty, but so is 10 per day, to how much have the 1.90 increased to exactly? because it sounds bloody convenient that 1.90 is the chosen amount for these statistics, when you can be poor with ten times as much than 1.90 per day, don't you think? Quite easy to decrease poverty, when your poverty line is an inch above the floor...

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