President Obama is Right About Social Media Warping Historical Context

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Well argued, and a thoughtful OP

I think you're probably right, overall, though I think the one problem that has been brought up that could be a bigger danger than ever is climate change. Not because the world's attitude to it has got worse, but because it hasn't got any better, and the expansion of economies means the effects are much larger now. For each invocation of Tesla EVs, we can point to Canadian tar sands, US fracking, and Australian coal mining, all expanding quickly.

A significant group of US politicians denies there's even a problem, and the rest of the world has, as its main policy on the subject, "how can we get away with the minimum change to our lifestyle and hope someone else does the heavy lifting on this?"

I'd also dispute your claim that the USSR was the dominant superpower until about 1985; but that doesn't really matter.