So Much Worse Songtext
von Akira the Don

It does seem to me that any one who lives in the west
In the western culture, this time in history and in this place
And who isn′t simultaneously grateful for that
Is half blind, at least

Because it's never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
It′s never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
It's never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
So much worse, So much worse

There's a paper published in Nature, not so long ago
Stating for example that an area twice the size of the U.S has greened in the last 15 years
There′s more forests in the northern hemisphere than there were a hundred years ago
And more forests in India and China than there were 30 years ago
And than this has gone along with a massively improved standard of living
The child mortality rate in Africa is now the same as it was in Europe in 1952
Which is a statistic that I just regard as absolutely miraculous
The rate of poverty is diminishing at an amazing rate, right between 2000 and 2012
We have poverty


It′s never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
It's never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
It′s never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
So much worse, So much worse

It's pretty hard on the Marxists I would say
Even though there is inequality and inequality is a problem
First of all, it doesn′t look like inequality can be placed at the feet of capitalism
It seems to me to be a far more intractable problem than that
Second, it's clear that the poor are getting richer, despite the fact of inequality

And third, and this is hard on the environmentalists, I think, is that
Turns out that if you get peoples income up to about 5,000 dollars a years in terms of gross domestic product
They actually start to care about the environment, which I suppose is because they′re not worried about dying instantly that day or that week
And so you seem to be in this perverse situation for a pessimist
Where we can make people wealthy and we could make the world a better place simultaneously

It's never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
It's never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
It′s never been better than this, and it could be so much worse
So much worse, So much worse

And it′s highly likely that it will be so much worse
Because for most of human history, so much worse is the norm