The article should be titled, "The World is Not Becoming More Violent".
Violence among humans is only one of many metrics to gauge the state of the world. Other metrics show trends that are not as rosy. Let's not forget, for example, that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction event, exhibiting a rate of species extinction 10x greater than during any other extinction event.
If we especially ignore our anthropocentric biases one can make a convincing case that the world is falling apart.
Violence among humans is only one of many metrics to gauge the state of the world. Other metrics show trends that are not as rosy. Let's not forget, for example, that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction event, exhibiting a rate of species extinction 10x greater than during any other extinction event.
If we especially ignore our anthropocentric biases one can make a convincing case that the world is falling apart.