Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Development, Collective Action

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Steven pinker"s thesis-- is that our time now is less violent than at any point in history. War is declining, since 1960 the annual war deaths has decreased from 500,000 a year to about 350,000. Democracy generally do not fight each other. In the 1850s you had about 15% chance to die from violence. And now its about 1/50th chance to die by violence. The last 70 years have been called the long peace because none of the major powers have directly fought each other. The most important piece of the information is political, it is the existence of states (the creation of states) Commerce (better to trade with people rather than kill them) The humanitarian revolution or the spread of reason- we are moving towards the end of slavery, torture, abuse etc . Different environmental conditions- haiti has 1% forest, the rest is all dry while dominican has lots of forestry. Dominican is about 7% richer than haiti.

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