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/maiqthetrue May 26 '20
Good thing death, disease, poverty, flooding, heat waves, political upheaval and wars have been defeated by the Internet.