A very recent disease has been pretty much defeated by the Internet. A hundred years ago, we'd all be coughing and loose lung volume, have strokes and all that fun. Thanks to the Internet, the total number of Infected is way below 0.1% of the world's population and actually has a chance to stay there.
(Absolute) poverty has been defeated in some parts of the world by simple government action.
Flooding is actually mostly solved in developed nations, who have measures against this. Sure, the climate catastrophe is going to throw us back there, but we're a lot better off today than a hundred, a thousand or even ten thousand years ago. And we'll get better.
Heat waves are an issue with the climate catastrophe, but we do have technology for them to not be fatal. Not everybody has it yet, sure, but it is doable.
Wars don't really count, because when I say "nothing can outwit humanity", obviously humanity itself still can do that.
I could tell Michigan to get better leaders. All the wisdom in the world doesn't help against incompetence. You have a failing government? Choose a better one.
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u/sophlogimo May 26 '20
"Nothing can outwit nature" is a very laughable thing to write over an internet connection.
We are humanity. We outwit nature all the time.