The allies needed the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. You cant paint it with morals, its just a time for survival. Global fertility has more than halved in the past 50 years, from more than five children per woman in the early 1960s to below 2.5 today. In a world without Increasing productivity was important because it made vital goods and services less scarce: more food, better clothing, less cramped housing. Whenever there are Germans or Japanese getting worked up about the civilian deaths in Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, I have a microscopic violin for them.I argue the bombing was simply ineffective. A truly fucked up act.You want to see hell? I have many a moment's like this. It was a horrible thing that needed to happen to end the war. These technologies can be used for entertainment, productivity or relaxation. People are much more informed about the importance of sanitation and this also adds years to their life.The quality of life has also improved over the decades. All this was due to a misunderstanding.
However, the same advancements have also adversely affected our life and planet in the form of pollution, contamination, and global warming. With the beginning of modernization, old stuff has been outdated while the newer inventions have replaced them.To take example, the improvement of communication may help to get a clear concept over the entire topic. In 1800, there were 120 million people in the world who could read and write; today there are 6.2 billion with the same skill.One reason we do not see progress is that we are unaware of how bad the past was.In 1800, the health conditions of our ancestors were such that around 43 percent of the world’s newborns died before their fifth birthday. As the world has seen the shift from the industrial revolution to service industries, more people are now free during the weekends, when they can enjoy these new modes of entertainment. It wasn't a decision made lightly. But this increase of the world population should evoke more than doom and gloom.
Newspapers could (and should) have run this headline every single day since 1990.How did the education of the world population’s change over this period? No one "deserves it". It shouldn't have happened. Make no mistake though, dropping these bombs was horrific but it should be measured against alternatives. My point is, if you asked 100 girls to rate one (excluding like supermodels or very attractive or ugly people) guy from 1-10, I would argue you would get much more variance in the ratings than if you did the same with guys rating girls. The simple reason is that the educational composition today tells us something about the education of tomorrow — a literate young woman today will be a literate old woman in 2070, and a student with secondary education now will be a graduate with secondary education in the future.The visualization below shows the projection of the IIASA for the size and the educational composition of the world population until 2100.With today’s lower global fertility, the researchers expect that the number of children will decline from now — there will never be more children on the planet than today. Nothing I have read anywhere suggests this....No I do not like or agree that things escalated to that point, and of course the civilians didn't "deserve" it, but I do think it was better than the alternative plans of invasion. And had war dragged on more lives would have been lost.
It is in our nature.So, while the events were horrific I do believe they have saved humanity from something far worse.