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"Strike a deal" is such a weird demand. It's like... you do understand they have to offer good terms, right? I can't strike a deal by myself.

NATO can't step in because it has no way to guarantee the safety of the strait without hitting the same problems.

Didn't the new bombing start in retaliation for an Iranian launch?

What is the best thread to move to? East/West/Futurology?

If I understood your link correctly, it counts interstate conflicts, so civil wars and insurgencies don't count. If I'm right, lots of civil wars and insurgencies, and things like ISIL would be excluded, so a lot of past violence gets left out.

The other thing is, forecasting doom makes money, so even with PiS out of power, Bolsonero out of power, Orban out of power, Golden Dawn actually raided by police the far right is eternally on the rise because that narrative makes money for news outlets and youtubers. The problems are not imaginary, but it's not as bad as it seems, it's just profitable to say otherwise. Farage has not really ever been close to the levers of power, however much people like to say otherwise.

"Hunter gatherers" was dramatic of me, sorry
Hmm...those are all legit, but call me unfashionably optimistic, it doesn't seem unmanageable. Like living standards will be lower to some degree, but will it be 'disastrous crash' or 'decline moderately from the absolute peak'?

I basically agree with the political critique of the traditional politicians running on 'not far right', treating the rise of their opposition as some kind of natural disaster that they can't do anything about, but seems like this could be addressed by someone moderately competent going into politics. Got to happen eventually, right?

Armed conflict at its highest levels since WW2? Really? Including all the post colonial wars?

Living standards are tricky. It's so much easier to travel and communicate now than it used to be, like for like is tough. I wonder re housing, once upon a time not so long ago people were buying houses in small towns close to their family, or emigrating completely for high risk high reward moves far away, whereas now the demand in much more centralised in major cities. If the jobs were constructiony, that meant people could build part of their own house more cheaply. But office job skills are not as transferable, manufacturing is more likely to be overseas. There's a lot complications to this.

A system dependent on infinite growth is going to slow down at some point, but it doesn't need to be a disaster.

Eh, humanity probably had the highest standard of living it ever had in the 2010s. In spite of what the politicians tell us, violent crime has been declining for a long time, as well as world hunger, health outcomes and so on. It's declined a little bit, but it's not we're going back to hunter gathering any time soon.