On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:20:36AM +0000, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
> To talk about regression is to not be aware of how extremely lucky and
> privileged we are to live in a time that experts call "the long peace" .
> Never in the recorded human history there were so few wars worldwide and as
> much poverty and it continuously gets better even in this time of global
> economic crisis.

Global Peace Index assesment for 2016 just came out, I recommend going through it.

http://static.visionofhumanity.org/sites/default/files/GPI%202016%20Report_2.pdf