Things in generally seem to be getting worse for at least a decade, especially for those born in this century.
Granted, the whole Ecological problems thing has been going on for longer, though there were some improvements in the 70s (polution controls that stopped acid rain) and the 90s (replacing CFCs and reverting the hole in the Ozone layer) but even some of those things were partially reverted in the last decade or two (the whole Diesel Emissions Scandal is to a large extent about emissions of the very same stuff that caused acid rain and hole in Ozone layer is growing again apparently due to CFC use in China).
As many have pointed out, the reversal of the trend of improvement in the median quality of life is probably because we’ve reached Late Stage Neoliberal Capitalism.
Things in generally seem to be getting worse for at least a decade, especially for those born in this century.
Granted, the whole Ecological problems thing has been going on for longer, though there were some improvements in the 70s (polution controls that stopped acid rain) and the 90s (replacing CFCs and reverting the hole in the Ozone layer) but even some of those things were partially reverted in the last decade or two (the whole Diesel Emissions Scandal is to a large extent about emissions of the very same stuff that caused acid rain and hole in Ozone layer is growing again apparently due to CFC use in China).
As many have pointed out, the reversal of the trend of improvement in the median quality of life is probably because we’ve reached Late Stage Neoliberal Capitalism.