Why I left Vox

The biggest antidote to too much pessimism OR too much optimism about the future is to learn more about history! If you think the world is in a low point right now, imagine living in the mid 1930s in Europe, or the first half of the last century in Africa, or the 20s and 30s in China, or the 10s in Imperial Russia or the.... The list goes on! The battles we are having now, are battles that humans have fought in the past! In fact ironically Russia in battling Ukrainian forces in the EXACT same location that Russians and Ukraine s battled Germans on this date in 1943.
History proves that humanity has the ability to make things far worse for themselves, and yet still claw back from the ashes and rebuild to the point where in a decade people born there could never imagine how bad it was! For example, climate changes worst case scenario: Ice caps melt, sea levels rise a hundred metres, coastal zone flooded, mass migration necessary! Well, 10k years ago, at the end of the last ice age, all that happened! The UK was connected to mainland Europe! Europe was half covered in ice, and double it's current size, and the ocean levels rose and I'm sure mass migration was needed, and many humans probably died (most probably at the hands of other humans), but humanity persevered.